Published on June 1, 2017
NASA’s One-Year Mission investigators are peering into their new findings to help address astronaut vision issues. Nutritional Biochemistry Lab lead Scott M. Smith, Ph.D., discovered that astronauts with vision issues had biochemical differences before ever leaving Earth as compared to astronauts without vision issues, and subsequently documented that this was evidence of a genetic predisposition for some astronauts to develop vision and eye issues. He thinks his team is on the path to help resolve vision issues for astronauts.
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