YouTube — The Guy Foundation: Mitochondria and space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_AcHWc40ek

I haven't had the chance to watch this yet, but the speakers are the two senior authors of Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts (2023)

 

Well this is fascinating. However presentation is dense and rapid, with abbreviations galore. Audio is suboptimal for one of the speakers too. Only to be attempted if cognitive and sensory performance is up to it! I'll have to do this in a couple of goes and probably would require repeat viewing before attempting any sort of summary.

In the meantime they mention a very recent National Academies publication: Thriving in Space: Ensuring the Future of Biological and Physical Sciences Research: A Decadal Survey for 2023-2032. That has a lot to say on the importance of mitochondrial dysfunction in long-term spaceflight and is promoted as a major research focus.

A couple of quotes relevant to us —