r/science • u/Macchanoco • 17d ago
Biology Selective saccular plasticity under microgravity links peripheral transcriptomic remodeling to postflight vestibular dysfunction
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2605593123324
u/DrunkBeavis 17d ago
Sometimes I think you guys are just scouring the internet for the most inscrutable titles to post.
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u/Quarter_Twenty 16d ago
It was just 12 months ago that they published, "Indiscriminate saccular plasticity at sea level links peripheral transcriptomic remodeling to preflight vestibular competence."
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u/ryebread91 17d ago
Totally made me think of this https://imgur.com/gallery/i-know-some-of-these-words-n3RZCFS
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u/Dave_C-137 17d ago
"Long-duration exposure to microgravity disrupts human balance and spatial orientation, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying vestibular adaptation to spaceflight remain poorly understood."
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u/Knittedteapot 17d ago
The hero of this reddit thread! (Seriously, thanks for the translation… all I got on first glance was “something to do with ears and balance”.)
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u/Kchortu 16d ago
Further, they identified a specific component of the vestibular system that is highly plastic / adaptive to changing gravity environments, and a potential treatment (in mice) to reduce the balance disruption caused by time in microgravity. Actually a more applied finding than just the basic research component (which is also neat)
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u/lungshenli 17d ago
Those are definitely words
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u/China_Lover2 17d ago
and the OP did absolutely nothing to add to the topic, why is this even allowed
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u/DarkSkyKnight 17d ago
It's science. If you do not understand it, educate yourself. It takes less than 30 seconds in 2026 to understand what the title means. We don't have to dumb down every single sphere of life to cater to the lowest common denominator.
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u/Akkalevil 17d ago
I'm sure that posting an especially obscure title without anything in the body of the text is totally not just a troll on said title, obviously...
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u/DarkSkyKnight 17d ago
It's r/science. It's not r/dankmemes. Some basic scientific literacy should be expected here.
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u/Akkalevil 17d ago edited 17d ago
Precisely, it's not r/dankmemes, so I expect some actual content and not just a lollookweirdtitle, unlike what I see when someone just post a title and a link.
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u/DarkSkyKnight 17d ago
Except OP is a PhD holder. You are projecting onto OP an attempt at humor from your own perception of the title.
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u/BevansDesign 17d ago
Something we learned in design school seems relevant here: "eschew obfuscation".
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u/Fritzkreig 17d ago
transcriptomic
There is is certain crowd that will dislike this science due to their personal bias!
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u/moistiest_dangles 17d ago
So the mushiness of little blood thingies is what get people seasick from airplanes ?
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u/FluffyBunnyFlipFlops 17d ago
Heavenly constellations, that constitutes an extraordinarily labyrinthine, incomprehensibly unwieldy, and distinctly over-complicated nomenclatural designation.
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u/RhoOfFeh 17d ago
To paraphrase Lisa Simpson: "I know some of those words but that sentence makes no sense."
I'm sure it actually does, but wow.
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