Solving astronauts’ health challenges in deep space could have payoffs on Earth

Space is famously known as the final frontier for human exploration. It may also be the final frontier for human medicine.

That’s what Dorit Donoviel, executive director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, and her team are working towards. TRISH is a consortium between Baylor College of Medicine, Caltech, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that partners with NASA to solve the health challenges of humans exploring deep space.

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