JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 73 Commander Takuya Onishi processes cassettes containing biological fluid samples for installation inside the Advanced Space Experiment Processor-4, a research facility that […]
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Microbiology In An Orbital Glovebox
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers works in the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Sciences Glovebox processing bacteria samples before viewing them inside a 3D imaging microscope called […]
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Microbes in Extreme Environments: Life at the Limits and Its Biotechnological Applications
Microorganisms are found in nearly every environment on Earth, including some of the most extreme habitats where life was once thought to be impossible. These “extremophiles” thrive in conditions of […]
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DARPA: Building Space Elevators, Space Nets, and other Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
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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Comparing Earth Life Growth – At Home – And Off World
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown attached as a mat in 2D on Earth as the current state-of-the-art (left) vs. iPSC experimentally grown as spheres in suspension in 3D bioreactors […]
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Genome Modeling And Design Across All Domains Of Life With Evo 2
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 […]
Posted inBiochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biophysics, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Recoding A Genome For Programmable Synthetic Proteins
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform […]
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Extremophile Spinoffs: Bioactive Compounds Identified In Bacteria From The Andes
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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Raiding Nature’s Genetic Toolbox For UV-C Resistance By Functional Metagenomics
As we assess the habitability of other worlds, we are limited by being able to only study terrestrial life adapted to terrestrial conditions.
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An Astrobiology Spinoff? Microbe Recovered From Mars 2020 Cleanroom May Have Commercial Applications
During microbial surveillance of the Mars 2020 spacecraft assembly facility, two novel bacterial strains, potentially capable of producing lasso peptides, were identified.