The Essence of Life, Reflected in the Space
Welcome to the official website of the JSPS Transformative Research Area (A) theme: "Life in Spece".
As the retirement of the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 2030, aproaches, life science research in low Earth orbit is reaching a major turning point. It now represents the culmination of humanity's achievements in space biology — and at the same time, a major step forward toward the post-ISS era, deep-space human exploration, and eventual settlement on Mars.
In this research area, we are building upon the valuable insights gained from experiments conducted aboard Japan's Kibo module on the ISS. Our goal is to explore what it truly means for humans to live in space, while also gaining new perspectives on the nature of life itself — evolved over billions of years on this one-of-a-kind planet we call Earth.
We invite you to join us on this exciting journey into the future of life and space.
News
2025.06.08
ASTROAIMED会議（ド バイ・UAE）で、村谷(A03)が発表しました。国際的な官民連携により、宇宙医学・生命科学分野の研究を行う枠組みに本領域も参加しています。
2025.05.20
国際重力生理学会（札幌）で、高橋智(A01)、髙橋昭久(A02)、村谷(A03)が発表しました。JAXAの宇宙実験に関するシンポジウムが開催され、国際的に研究結果と今後の展望が発信・共有されました。
2025.05.24
日本医学会シンポジウム「宇宙医学の展望」で、高橋智(A01)、笹原(A03)が発表しました。JAXA研究や長期にわたる閉鎖空間での生活に関わる成果を紹介しました。
2025.09.12-14
日本宇宙衛物科学会大会(東京) 共催シンポジウムが9/13に開催されます。
2025.10.03
筑波会議2025 共催シンポジウムが開催されます。
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Collaborations and Affiliated Studies
This research project is supported by a collaborative network that has grown not only through selected space experiment themes by JAXA, but also through the participation of the omics sub-group from the preceding project Living in Space in the NASA GeneLab Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) Analysis Working Group (AWG).
If you are interested in this research theme, we warmly encourage you to consider joining the AWG sub-group Space, Adaptation and Evolution.
