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UCSF research really is out of this world: Since the first missions to the moon, science has understood that space travel takes a toll on the body. "Space flight conditions induce aging of immune cells in bone, blood vessels and the liver," explains UCSF's Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D., which makes space a nearly perfect laboratory to study aging. This is why Schrepfer partners with NASA to send tissue samples into orbit on the International Space Station. Working alongside Tobias Deuse, MD, MD, Schrepfer hopes that understanding how, for example, liver cells age and weaken in space will one day unlock new liver disease treatments on Earth. "Patients inspire us to work faster ... to think about next steps and new therapeutic strategies,” she says. https://lnkd.in/e9yzFXy3
Congratulations to Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD (left), and Tobias Deuse, MD, for their work outside the planetary box.
cancer registry technician at UCSF Medical Center
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