Overbey Eliah G, Ryon Krista, Kim JangKeun, Tierney Braden, Klotz Remi, Ortiz Veronica, Mullane Sean, Schmidt Julian C, MacKay Matthew, Damle Namita, Najjar Deena, Matei Irina, Patras Laura, Medina J Sebastian Garcia, Kleinman Ashley, Hirschberg Jeremy Wain, Proszynski Jacqueline, Narayanan S Anand, Schmidt Caleb M, Afshin Evan E, Innes Lucinda, Saldarriaga Mateo Mejia, Schmidt Michael A, Granstein Richard D, Shirah Bader, Yu Min, Lyden David, Mateus Jaime, Mason Christopher E
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
bioRxiv. 2023 May 2:2023.05.02.539108. doi: 10.1101/2023.05.02.539108.
The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission provided a unique opportunity to study the impact of spaceflight on the human body. Biospecimen samples were collected from the crew at different stages of the mission, including before (L-92, L-44, L-3 days), during (FD1, FD2, FD3), and after (R+1, R+45, R+82, R+194 days) spaceflight, creating a longitudinal sample set. The collection process included samples such as venous blood, capillary dried blood spot cards, saliva, urine, stool, body swabs, capsule swabs, SpaceX Dragon capsule HEPA filter, and skin biopsies, which were processed to obtain aliquots of serum, plasma, extracellular vesicles, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. All samples were then processed in clinical and research laboratories for optimal isolation and testing of DNA, RNA, proteins, metabolites, and other biomolecules. This paper describes the complete set of collected biospecimens, their processing steps, and long-term biobanking methods, which enable future molecular assays and testing. As such, this study details a robust framework for obtaining and preserving high-quality human, microbial, and environmental samples for aerospace medicine in the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) initiative, which can also aid future experiments in human spaceflight and space biology.
太空探索技术公司(SpaceX)的灵感4号任务提供了一个研究太空飞行对人体影响的独特机会。在任务的不同阶段从机组人员身上采集了生物样本,包括太空飞行前(发射前92天、44天、3天)、飞行期间(飞行日1、2、3)以及飞行后(返回后1天、45天、82天、194天),从而创建了一个纵向样本集。采集过程包括静脉血、毛细血管干血斑卡片、唾液、尿液、粪便、身体拭子、太空舱拭子、太空探索技术公司龙飞船高效空气过滤器以及皮肤活检样本等,对这些样本进行处理以获得血清、血浆、细胞外囊泡和外周血单个核细胞的等分试样。然后,所有样本都在临床和研究实验室进行处理,以实现对DNA、RNA、蛋白质、代谢物和其他生物分子的最佳分离和检测。本文描述了所采集的完整生物样本集、其处理步骤以及长期生物样本库保存方法,这些方法能够支持未来的分子分析和检测。因此,本研究详细介绍了一个强大的框架,用于在太空组学与医学图谱(SOMA)计划中获取和保存用于航空航天医学的高质量人类、微生物和环境样本,这也有助于未来人类太空飞行和太空生物学实验。