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    Single-cell analysis identifies conserved features of immune dysfunction in simulated microgravity and spaceflight

    Microgravity is associated with immunological dysfunction, though the mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, using single-cell analysis of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) exposed to short ter...

    Fei Wu, Huixun Du, Eliah Overbey, JangKeun Kim, Priya Makhijani in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Telomeric RNA (TERRA) increases in response to spaceflight and high-altitude climbing

    Telomeres are repetitive nucleoprotein complexes at chromosomal termini essential for maintaining genome stability. Telomeric RNA, or TERRA, is a previously presumed long noncoding RNA of heterogeneous lengths...

    Taghreed M. Al-Turki, David G. Maranon, Christopher B. Nelson in Communications Biology (2024)

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    Tuning immunity through tissue mechanotransduction

    Immune responses are governed by signals from the tissue microenvironment, and in addition to biochemical signals, mechanical cues and forces arising from the tissue, its extracellular matrix and its constitue...

    Huixun Du, Juliet M. Bartleson, Sergei Butenko in Nature Reviews Immunology (2023)