Offworld Biotech: 3D Bioprinting On The International Space Station
Imagine someone needs a heart transplant and scientists take cells from that person to create an entire new heart for them. Research on the International Space Station is helping to bring that dream...
View ArticleResearch Takes Us A Step Closer To Sustaining Human Life On Mars
Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered the transformative potential of Martian nanomaterials, potentially opening the door to sustainable habitation on the red planet. Using resources...
View ArticleSwarming Proxima Centauri: Optical Communication Over Interstellar Distances
Interstellar communications are achievable with gram-scale spacecraft using swarm techniques introduced herein if an adequate energy source, clocks and a suitable communications protocol exist. The...
View ArticleTricorder Tech: Air Monitoring By Nanopore Sequencing
Editor’s note: Upon entering a spacecraft or arriving on a new, inhabited world, you would probably like to have your tricorder to have the ability to do a quick assay of the atmosphere that you and...
View ArticleHow Do Particles With Complex Interactions Self-assemble?
In living cells, proteins self-assemble into large functional structures based on specific interactions between molecularly complex patches. Due to this complexity, protein self-assembly results from a...
View ArticleTricorder Tech: Quantitative Measurement Of Microbial Growth Rate With Raman...
Rates of microbial activity and growth are fundamental to understanding environmental geochemistry and ecology. However, measuring the heterogeneity of microbial activity at the single-cell level,...
View ArticleBiosignature Detection And MinION Sequencing Of Antarctic Cryptoendoliths...
In the search for life in our Solar System, Mars remains a promising target based on its proximity and similarity to Earth. When Mars transitioned from a warmer, wetter climate to its current dry and...
View ArticleTricorder And Replicator Tech: 3D Printing Components For A Portable Mass...
Editor’s note: you are on a mission to explore a new world. WHile you are out on an Away Mission one of yoru instruments breaks , wears out, or otherwise functions incorrectly. A part needs to...
View ArticleCryo-microscopy Reveals Nano-sized Copy Machine Implicated In The Origin Of Life
How the intricate molecular machinery of life arose from simple beginnings has been a long-standing question. Several lines of evidence point towards a primordial “RNA world”, where an “RNA copy...
View ArticleOffworld Genomics Research: Expanding The Genes in Space™ Toolkit On The...
For nearly a decade, Genes in Space™ has challenged students to develop spaceflight experiments that use biotechnology to address spaceflight challenges. Founded by Boeing and miniPCRbio, the program...
View ArticleViruses In Astrobiology
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, and yet, they have not received enough consideration in astrobiology. Viruses are also extraordinarily diverse, which is evident in the types...
View ArticleTricorder Tech: A Biological Camera That Captures And Stores Images Directly...
Editor’s note: As we develop the instrumentation for use on offworld Astrobiology Away Teams, compactness and efficiency will be paramount. Given the distances involved team members may well need to do...
View ArticleAstrobiology, Bioastronautics, And Space Bioprocess Engineering: Domains Of...
The integration of biology and spacefaring has led to the development of three interrelated fields: Astrobiology, Bioastronautics, and Space Bioprocess Engineering. Astrobiology is concerned with the...
View ArticleHow Life Appeared: Rise Of The Nanomachines
Molecular assembly can be designed by fusing binding domains. A precise optimization of the level of compaction of the assembly using linker of different lengths or compositions can provide a simple...
View ArticleThe Use Of RNA-seq For The Study Of Physiological Adaptations Of Halophiles...
The purpose of this paper aims to discuss the utility of RNA-seq, a transcriptomic analysis tool, to study the details of halophile adaptations within terrestrial evolution and for projected Martian...
View ArticleHomochirality Of Life: Magnetic Effects At The Origin Of Life?
The so-called homochirality of life – the fact that all biomolecules in living organisms only ever occur in one of two mirror-image forms – has puzzled a number of scientific luminaries, from the...
View ArticleInfluence of Microgravity on Spontaneous Calcium Activity of Primary...
The influence of variations of gravity, either hypergravity or microgravity, on the brain of astronauts is a major concern for long journeys in space, to the Moon or to Mars, or simply long-duration...
View ArticleSelf-emergence Of Stational Periodic Arrangement Of Dual Microdroplets...
Polymer systems composed of multiple components can spontaneously induce emulsion or microdroplets by mechanical mixing, as an intermediate state of macroscopic phase separation. Unfortunately, the...
View ArticleGenomics Tricorder Tech: De novo Genome Sequencing And Annotation Of A...
Editor’s note: Oxford Nanopore technology has been used multiple times on the International Space Station (see Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics) to try and help elucidate changes in genomic...
View ArticleNew Study Unveils RNA’s Role In Early Life And Future Bioengineering
The beginning of life on Earth and its evolution over billions of years continue to intrigue researchers worldwide. The central dogma or the directional flow of genetic information from a deoxyribose...
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