This episode explores new research which has found that simulated microgravity, such as that encountered in spaceflight, disrupts the functioning of the epithelial barrier (the lining of the gut).
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read the 'Astronaut of Waste’ by Joel Sloman here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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