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Podcast: The Thorne Podcast
Episode: Defying Gravity: Astronaut Health and Your Genes
Description: Launch into outer space with Dr. Chris Mason, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, as he tells the story of his collaboration with NASA on the famous Twins Study and its implications for the future of human health, genetics, and interplanetary travel.
During this episode you’ll learn about:
Chris Mason, professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-founder of Onegevity [00:00:53]
Mason’s first research mission with NASA [3:48]
How space and gravity affected astronaut Scott Kelly [4:28]
What is genetic malleability? [8:54]
How many genes do humans have? [10:14]
The cost to test a whole genome [12:39]
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