AIIMS, Isro ink space medicine pact

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Indian Space Research Organisation's Human Space Flight Centre on Monday signed an agreement to collaborate on space medicine, opening the door for research on how the human body behaves in space - and how those insights could improve healthcare on Earth.The collaboration establishes a framework for ground-based and space-based research in areas including human physiology, cardiovascular and autonomic regulation, musculoskeletal health in microgravity, microbiome and immunology, genomics and biomarkers, and behavioural health. AIIMS director Prof M Srinivas said the collaboration would open new frontiers in medical research.