The genus Chitinophaga was described by Sangkhobol and Skerman when characterizing the type species Chitinophaga pinensis (1). Chitinophaga consists of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium (2), and at the time of writing, […]
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Orbital Recon: EMIT Collects Data On Terrestrial Plant Communities
Editor’s note: when we begin to survey new worlds up close with reconnaissance spacecraft – from orbit – we will need an array of sensors capable of gleaning as much […]
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Orbital Recon: EMIT Scans The Amazon River in Northern Brazil
Editor’s note: when we begin to survey new worlds up close with reconnaissance spacecraft – from orbit – we will need an array of sensors capable of gleaning as much […]
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China Exoplanet Habitability and Ecosystem Space Experiment
The experiment of exo-ecosystem and the exploration of extraterrestrial habitability aims to explore the adaptation of terrestrial life in space conditions for the manned space program and the future interstellar […]
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Bassas da India Atoll: A Biological Structure You Can See From Orbit
Editor’s note: Atolls are formed in several ways when a rocky feature becomes surrounded by a coral reefs sea levels change, and the rocky structure then erodes – while the […]
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Reduced Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Cell Size Observed on Planktonic Cultures Grown in the International Space Station
Bacterial growth and behavior have been studied in microgravity in the past, but little focus has been directed to cell size despite its impact on a myriad of processes, including […]
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Monitoring Microorganisms On The International Space Station
Crew members on the International Space Station have a lot of company – millions of bacteria and other microbes. The human body contains 10 times more microbes than human cells, […]
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Offworld Life Science: Sequencing DNA Samples On ISS For The BioMole Study
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli sequences DNA samples for the BioMole study demonstrating hardware that can analyze microbes to protect crew health and spacecraft life support […]
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Offworld Life Science Research On The International Space Station
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara shows off research hardware supporting the UMAMI, or Understanding of Microgravity on Animal-Microbe Interaction, space biology experiment.
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Offworld Life Science Research: Processing Liver Stem Cell Samples For An Aging Study
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli processes liver stem cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox for the Space AGE investigation.