Parabolic flight induces site specific microbiome changes in women
Begum Aydogan Mathyk, Rohit Shukla, Vivek Kumar, Sidharth P. Mishra, Shawna Pandya, Norah Patten, Kellie Gerardi, Heather Wright Beatty, Aaron H. Persad, Anthony N. Imudia, Hariom Yadav, Shalini Jain · 2026
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Begum Aydogan Mathyk and colleagues measure how brief weightlessness shifts microbes in women during parabolic flight in 2026. Flights that arc up and down give short bursts of near zero gravity. Stress from such flights may disturb the microbes that guard women's health.
The team swabbed the mouth and vagina of women before and after flight and read the microbes by gene sequencing. Mouth communities barely changed, while vaginal communities shifted a great deal. Helpful Lactobacillus species grew more dominant after flight, and one species marked the change best. Stress measures taken alongside help frame the shift. The work adds a female focus that space medicine has often missed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Begum Aydogan Mathyk, Rohit Shukla, Vivek Kumar, Sidharth P. Mishra, Shawna Pandya, Norah Patten, Kellie Gerardi, Heather Wright Beatty, Aaron H. Persad, Anthony N. Imudia, Hariom Yadav, Shalini Jain |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |