2017-09-25
How our immune systems could stop humans reaching Mars
Sarah Knapton, science editor 2 SEPTEMBER 2017 • 12:45PM The astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson commented that ‘dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked the opposable thumbs and brainpower to build a space programme’ Yet although we now have the technological ability to leave Earth, scientists have found another stumbling block to colonising new worlds - our own immune system. Although it is said we are all made of ‘star stuff’ when it comes to ...