Timeline for Do astronauts experience any genetic changes?
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| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:45 | comment | added | Mark Adler | Yes, clearly, as experienced by the Fantastic Four. Also interestingly, you can hear cosmic rays. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 8:12 | answer | added | jumpjack | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:47 | history | edited | user12 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:29 | history | edited | user12 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2013 at 15:38 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | You have to state whether it is LEO (within the Van Allen belts) or beyond LEO. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 15:38 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | Start your search on PubMed: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed The current problem is that human ova may not survive Galactic Cosmic Rays. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2005 Apr 26;102(17):6063-7. Epub 2005 Apr 13. Germ cell mutagenesis in medaka fish after exposures to high-energy cosmic ray nuclei: A human model. Shimada A, Shima A, Nojima K, Seino Y, Setlow RB. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1087928/pdf/… | |
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| Aug 8, 2013 at 14:21 | comment | added | TildalWave | Could you please narrow your question down a bit? Genetic changes happen all the time even under "normal" circumstances, with e.g. chemical processes restructuring protein amino acids, e.t.c. and most of such changes don't manifest in long term mutations, and are repaired, or benign in nature. I believe you're specifically after genetic mutations with undesirable effects on astronaut's health, or their offspring? | |
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| Aug 8, 2013 at 13:04 | comment | added | matthew spear | There is currently a experiment, using two twins that are both astronauts, to investigate that question. geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/08/07/… | |
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