SPACELINE Current Awareness - Publication list December 24, 2025

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Papers deriving from NASA support:

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Knight MS, Doherty CJ, Nielsen DM.

Assessing the effect of spaceflight stress on DNA sequence mutation using RNA-sequencing data .

Gravit Space Res. 2025 Dec;13(1):121-34.

https://doi.org/10.2478/gsr-2025-0009

PI: C.J. Doherty

Note: From the abstract: “Here, we used RNA-Seq data to examine DNA sequence variation in Arabidopsis thalianaseedlings grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) vs. on the ground.” GeneLab is available at https://genelab.nasa.gov. This article may be obtained online without charge.

Journal Impact Factor: 0.2

Funding: “This work was supported by a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NSSC19K0146) to Dr. Colleen J. Doherty.”

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Daniels CA, Abdulkadir AA, Cleveland MH, McDaniel JH, Jåspez D, Rubio-Rodríguez LA, Muñoz-Barrera A, Lorenzo-Salazar JM, Flores C, Yoo B, Ebrahim Sahraeian SM, Wang Y, Rossi M, Visvanath A, Murray L, Chen W-T, Catreux S, Han J, Mehio R, Parnaby G, Carroll A, Chang P-C, Shafin K, Cook D, Kolesnikov A, Brambrink L, Eeman Mootor MF, Patel Y, Yamaguchi TN, Boutros PC, Sienkiewicz K, Foox J, Mason CE, Lajoie BR, Ruiz-Perez CA, Kruglyak S, Zook JM, Olson ND.

Characterization of subclonal variants in HG002 Genome in a Bottle reference material as a resource for benchmarking variant callers .

Cell Genomics. 2025 Dec 19. Online ahead of print.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2025.101104

PI: C.E. Mason

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Journal Impact Factor: 1.7

Funding: “C.E.M. thanks the Scientific Computing Unit (SCU), the WorldQuant and GI Research Foundations, NASA (80NSSC23K0832), the National Institutes of Health (NIH; R01ES032638 and U54AG089334), and the LLS (MCL7001-18, LLS 9238- 16, and 7029-23).”

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Weiss HM, Moudy SC, Wood SJ.

Development of head-trunk coordination measures for assessing sensorimotor function in laboratory and natural settings using wearable sensors .

Sci Rep. 2025 Dec 18. Early access article.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41413193

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Journal Impact Factor: 3.9

Funding: “The work was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate within the Mars Campaign Office Crew Health Countermeasures.”

Physical Science papers deriving from NASA support:

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Mudawar I, Darges SJ, Hasan MM, Nahra HK, Balasubramaniam R, Mackey JR.

Experimental investigation and analysis of flow condensation heat transfer in microgravity–Experiments onboard the International Space Station .

Int J Heat Mass Transf. 2026 Jan;254:127602.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2025.127602

PI: I. Mudawar

Note: ISS results.

Journal Impact Factor: 5.8

Funding: “The authors are appreciative of the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under grant no. 80NSSC22K0328.”

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Noh H, Kim J, Lee S, Kim S-M, Mudawar I.

XGBoost algorithm for predicting heat transfer coefficient of saturated flow boiling in mini/micro-channels .

Int J Heat Mass Transf. 2026 Mar;256:128095.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2025.128095

PI: I. Mudawar

Journal Impact Factor: 5.8

Funding: “The authors are grateful for financial support through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) of Korea government NRF-RS-2023–00280898 and acknowledge the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under grant no. 80NSSC22K0328.”

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Liveretou C, Rivera J, Bardy M, Fernandez-Pello C, Gollner M, Etzenbach L, Thomsen M, Olson S, Ferkul P.

Flame extinction of thermally thick PMMA in Earth gravity versus microgravity: A comparison of Earth and on-orbit space experiments .

Fire Saf J. 2026 May;160:104625.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2025.104625

PI: C. Fernandez-Pello

Journal Impact Factor: 3.3

Funding: “This work was supported by NASA, USA Grant 80NSSC22K0582.”


Other papers of interest:

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Bao Z, Guo C, Chen Y, Lei T, Peng H, Zhang H, Zhang X, Ban Y, Qi D, Feng J, Xiang Z.

Intestinal bacteria trigger a hibernation-like state in homotherms via the gut-brain axis .

npj Biofilms Microbiomes. 2025 Dec 17;11(1):229.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41407696

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

2

Che J, Qiu Z, Hou H, Li Y, He L, Sun J, Zhang S, Li M, Pan S, Zhang W, Niu Y.

SphK1 suppresses human dental pulp stem cell apoptosis by promoting glycolysis under simulated microgravity .

J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2025 Dec 16;2025:6659059.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41427031

Note: From the article: “Ground-based microgravity conditions were produced using the CellSpace-3D tri-axial culture device (CellSpace, Beijing, China), which utilizes a 3D inclinometer with two rotational axes and applies 45° rotation about these dual axes to disperse the gravity vector and thereby simulate microgravity.” This article may be obtained online without charge.

3

Golubkova MA, Ogneva IV.

Simulated weightlessness does not affect key processes of early oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster .

Acta Astronaut. 2025 Dec 20. Online ahead of print.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.12.037

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Moon JH, Yoon KH, Lee JI.

Hypergravity hinders proper dendritic patterning of a sensory neuron in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans .

Sci Rep. 2025 Dec 17. Early access article.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41407820

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

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Possnig C, Mugele H, Mittermeier R, Lawley JS.

Influence of hydrostatic gradients and diurnal rhythm on cerebral and ocular blood flow .

Eur J Appl Physiol. 2025 Dec 19. Online ahead of print.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41417069

Note: From the abstract: “Vascular dynamics in the eyes and brain under microgravity have gained attention due to the Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS). We explored how changes in gravitational vectors, circadian rhythm, and sleep regulate cerebral blood flow (CBF) and eye perfusion.” This article may be obtained online without charge.

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Rodríguez-Moreno A, Martín-Blåzquez S, de Heredia UL, Soto Á, Låzaro E.

Impact of simulated microgravity in short-term evolution of an RNA bacteriophage .

Front Microbiol. 2025 Dec 3;16:1680651.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41425928

Note: A 3D clinostat was used in this study. This article may be obtained online without charge.

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Yin C, Zhang J, Cheng Z, He F, Lu H, Zhao S.

Transcriptomics analyses reveal microgravity triggers estrogen synthesis amidst degeneration and aging in human ovarian granulosa cells .

Life Sci Space Res. 2025 Dec 18. Online ahead of print.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lssr.2025.12.002

Note: From the article: “In this study, we utilized a biaxial 3D system to simulate a microgravity environment and demonstrated its effects on transcriptomics of human ovarian granulosa cells.” This article may be obtained online without charge.

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Zhou Z, Ren Z, Sun H, Yang F, Liu X, Zhang X, Li Y, Huang H, Wang J.

Quantitative MRI assessment of knee cartilage alterations following 60-day head-down bedrest .

Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Dec 16. Online ahead of print.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41412297

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