Deep space travel's radiation problem: what cosmic rays do to brains - BMC Series blog

Deep space travel's radiation problem: what cosmic rays do to brains - BMC Series blog

BMC Series blog

Christopher Foote

Editor at BMC Series

Chris is the Editor of BMC Cell Biology, BMC Ecology, and BMC Evolutionary Biology. Before joining BioMed Central in 2012, he did a PhD at the University of Glasgow and post-doctoral research at Iowa State University.

Deep space travel’s radiation problem: what cosmic rays do to brains

This video summary discusses new research, recently published in BMC Genomics, that investigates the effects on mice brains of exposure to 56Fe ions - the same kind of radiation that astronauts would be exposed to on a deep space mission to Mars.

Christopher Foote 9 Nov 2016