Roskosmos plans this year to explore the issue of changing the human body for flights to far space. The executive director of the state corporation on promising programs and science Alexander Bloishenko was told about this TASS agency.
According to him, research work will be opened on the transformation of man “at the level of genetic engineering and cellular technologies”, as well as on medical influence on individual bodies. In particular, it is planned to create medical preparations that will allow the body to cope with the influence of cosmic radiation on the nervous system. “There are already developments on the temporary change in the properties of rodent organisms: they are injected with the drug, after which the body appears for some time,” he told.
Studies are going to attract the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medical Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Medical and Biological Agency and Medical Institutions of the Ministry of Health. Results of research “Roskosmos” is ready to take on the implementation.
In September 2020, scientists talked about the effect of a long stay in space on the structure of the brain. As a result of being in weightlessness for a certain time, the distribution of white and gray substance in the brain changes. Also increase the ventricles of the brain, and they are becoming more spinal fluid. The researchers believe that this way the nervous system adapts and pays more attention to those areas of the brain that is responsible for controlling the movements and the feeling of the position of various parts of the body relative to each other.
Earlier, Russian researchers, together with colleagues from Canada, revealed the influence of the flight into space on the protein composition of the blood. In particular, they found that the human body reacts to weightlessness as a disease, and the immune system includes all sorts of protective mechanisms.