Published on July 11, 2017
NASA Commentator Lori Meggs talks with a principal researcher on the Microbiome experiment. The ongoing study looks at the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time.) Microbiome is part of the ongoing Twins Study with brothers Scott and Mark Kelly and will explore the brothers’ dietary differences and stressors to find out how both affect the organisms in the twins’ guts.
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