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DARPA: Building Space Elevators, Space Nets, and other Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures

by Keith Cowing

Given recent advances in metabolic engineering for rapid growth, extremophiles with novel properties, biological self-assembly properties of tunable materials, and emergent mechanical design principles of biological systems, DARPA is interested […]

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Extremophile/Astrobiology Spinoff: A Tardigrade Protein May Help Cancer Patients Tolerate Radiation Therapy

by Keith Cowing

About 60 percent of all cancer patients in the United States receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment. However, this radiation can have severe side effects that often end […]

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Genome Modeling And Design Across All Domains Of Life With Evo 2

by Keith Cowing

All of life encodes information with DNA. While tools for sequencing, synthesis, and editing of genomic code have transformed biological research, intelligently composing new biological systems would also require a […]

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Extremophile Spinoffs: Bioactive Compounds Identified In Bacteria From The Andes

by Keith Cowing

An article published in the journal Scientific Reports describes how researchers analyzed biofilm produced by bacteria found in the El Medano hot springs, located in Chile in the central Andes, […]

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The Extremophile Protein That Revolutionized DNA Sequencing

by Keith Cowing

This game-changing bacterium is called Thermus aquaticus, and it can withstand temperatures as high as 80°C. It’s an example of an extremophile – an organism capable of living in extreme […]

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Mapping the Edges of Mass Spectral Prediction: Evaluation of Machine Learning EIMS Prediction for Xeno Amino Acids

by Keith Cowing

Mass spectrometry is one of the most effective analytical methods for unknown compound identification. By comparing observed m/z spectra with a database of experimentally determined spectra, this process identifies compound(s) […]

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Extremophiles and Extremophilic Behaviour – New Insights and Perspectives

by Keith Cowing

Extremophiles, throughout evolutionary time, have evolved a plethora of unique strategies to overcome hardships associated with the environments they are found in.

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