[Voyager Technologies] (NYSE: VOYG) executed a mission management contract with Interstellar Lab to host BioPod EDEN, the company’s autonomous plant growth payload, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Commercial & Private Sector
Posted inNanotechnology & SynBio
Designing Protein Structures From Natural Language
[cs.LG] A central challenge in de novo protein design is generating proteins with desired structural and functional properties.
![[NASA] NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shows off a tissue chamber that houses samples NASA ID: iss075e0154066 iss075e0154066 (Sept. 28, 20267) Date Created:2026-09-28 Larger image](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Offworld-Biotech-Microgravity.jpg?resize=1200%2C721&ssl=1)
Posted inImaging & Spectroscopy
Offworld Biotech: Nikon Experimentation Microscope in Orbit (NEMO) (Video)
[NASA]. astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir shows off a tissue chamber that houses samples for viewing inside the Nikon Experimentation Microscope in Orbit (NEMO).
Posted inNanotechnology & SynBio
Advances in Machine Learning for Directed Evolution: A Five-Year Retrospective
[q-bio.BM] The last five-plus years have seen many protein engineering disciplines transformed by advances in machine learning (ML), but the same cannot be said for directed evolution.
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics
ExMODE: A Comprehensive Resource For Extremophile Genomic And Functional Exploration
[iMetaOmics] ExMODE (https://db.genomics.cn/exmode/) integrates 3518 samples to build a unified extremophile resource, which hosts 1.35 billion habitat-specific non-redundant genes, 5.25 million representative protein structures, 67,026 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), and 164,132 […]
Posted inAstropharmacy / Biotechnology
Offworld Biotechnology: Brain Organoid Research
[NASA]. A preflight image of a brain organoid immunostained for different neural-specific markers.
Posted inAstrochemistry
Dual Use Technology – An Astrochemistry Spin Off
Editor’s note: many of the tools that are used in astronomy to conduct analyses of chemistry in space – astrochemistry – utilize technology that has had long-standing applications in a […]
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A Look At Eight Outbursts Of Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke
Cometary outbursts may be used as a means to infer the physical processes occurring on cometary nuclei. To that end, we studied eight outbursts of comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke identified between 2021 […]
Posted inAstropharmacy / Biotechnology, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Commercial & Private Sector, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Habitable Zones, Microbiology & Virology, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Press Release, Sample Return
From Microbial Dark Matter To Living Library: New Biobank Decodes Survival Secrets Of Extreme Acid Mine Drainage Microbes
Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Commercial & Private Sector, Cubesats and smallsats, Microbiology & Virology, Microgravity, Missions & Hardware, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Radiation, Space Life Science, Status Report
Development and Demonstration of a Modular Astrobiological Experiments (MAEx) Payload for Autonomous Biological Monitoring in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
The spaceflight environment presents unique physicochemical conditions, including microgravity, ionizing radiation, altered fluid transport, and confined engineered habitats, which influence biological systems and biomolecular assembly processes.