Ryan T. Scott
@RyanTScott
Personal acct/not work’s. Spaceflight, Biology, Health, Clinical, Data, Informatics/ML. As humans 🚀 to Mars & 🌘, 1000s+ can engage via #OpenScience. I❤️Rugby
The NASA Open Science Data Repository (expansion of @NASAGeneLab) has enabled biological & health discoveries helping humanity become multi-planetary by helping life thrive in deep space on Mars and 🌘 OSDR stores precious data anyone can use and analyze, plus a community of…




New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works
Very honored to receive the 2025 ISCB Innovator Award at #ISMBECCB2025 and present our lab’s journey—from mapping cells to modeling their future. Thanks to my amazing team and collaborators—this is our award! 🙌 📝 doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…
See our previous threads for more details: x.com/saizhang0/stat…
We have single-cell version of eQTL and fine-mapping, but how about PRS? I am delighted to share our latest work on scPRS, a geometric deep learning model constructing single-cell-resolved PRS leveraging scATAC data to enhance disease prediction and biological discovery. 1/n
.@NASA is continuing its tradition of not gatekeeping success by unveiling a major update to its public software catalog, which has been behind many commercial advancements since its launch more than a decade ago. payloadspace.com/nasa-releases-…
Fired up and ready to launch 🚀🔥
Wrapping up my day at @NASA - spoke with the smart leaders of our mission directorates. We agree- America MUST dominate space and our critical moon mission, #ARTEMIS, must be as known & supported by America just as Apollo was! It's a race to the moon. Clock is ticking. I'm fired…
Excited to share that scPRS is now out @NatureBiotech! We developed a new single-cell-resolved #PRS using deep learning. nature.com/articles/s4158…
The lunar surface awaits. 🌔 By first sending our intrepid FLIP rover to the Moon as a technology demonstration mission, the Astrolab team will better understand how our large-scale FLEX rover's hardware and software will operate in the harsh environment of space.
The new @SpaceX website is awesome! Stoked to have an official launch board that will clearly tell you when the next several launches are. We actually have physical versions all over the office that automatically update when a launch occurs. Just like an airport 😜
LIVE: Polaris Dawn astronauts Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon on NSF's Astro Live show from the Intrepid Museum, New York City. youtube.com/live/EeUbBHDUs…
Continuing the tradition of @StanfordCVI dinner reception at #bcvs2025 w great presentations from CVI alumni @ArunSharmaPhD @ Cedar Sinai, @mingtao_zhao @ Cinncinati Childrens, and current Instructors David Staudt & Masataka Nishiga (soon to be facuty @OhioState ) @Joseph_C_Wu
The @NASAArmstrong X-59 supersonic jet is one step closer to cutting flight time in half with a quiet sonic thump instead of a boom. This is a testament to American innovation and dedication. Great work, @NASAaero! ✈️🌎
Going to Mars is going to be tough stuff...
Just published in @Nature_NPJ , @bioastra and @NASAGeneLab uncover key challenges of eating plants grown on LEO —and solutions—for astronaut health nature.com/articles/s4152… Fantastic collaboration between brilliant people @mason_lab @EliahOverbey @Dr_Dick_Barker @RyanTScott
Big boi 🚀
Starship is the largest and most powerful flying object by far!
For 🌘Lunar, Mars missions, this study mined data across 🚀 plants (lettuce, arabidopsis) & humans (I4, JAXA, Twins), showing 🚀evidence of 🥬mineral deficiencies, disrupted calcium signaling, leaky gut syndrome; to argue for precision nutrition, pharmagenomics & bioengineered…
Just published in @Nature_NPJ , @bioastra and @NASAGeneLab uncover key challenges of eating plants grown on LEO —and solutions—for astronaut health nature.com/articles/s4152… Fantastic collaboration between brilliant people @mason_lab @EliahOverbey @Dr_Dick_Barker @RyanTScott
Thanks to @mason_lab for joining us for the 2nd talk in our new Center for Space Medicine Research seminar series at @CSRegenMedicine! 🚀 Fantastic talk on space -omics, humans adapting to the microgravity environment, and the biomedical future of space exploration.
For biological data, if you don't have deep expertise in this low value work called data cleaning, u r lacking a fundamental understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the data. Without this knowledge, it is impossible to seriously model data.
Academia must be the only industry where extremely high-skilled PhD students spend much of their time doing low value work (like data cleaning). A 1st year management consultant outsources this immediately. Imagine the productivity gains if PhDs could focus on thinking
Vast has officially opened its new Long Beach headquarters, a 189,690 sq. ft. campus to support the world’s first commercial space station and the successor to the International Space Station. @LongBeachMayor and @cwmegankerr joined Vast Founder @JedMcCaleb, CEO @maxhaot, and…