Nanopore sensing is a powerful tool for the detection of biomolecules. Solid-state nanopores act as single-molecule sensors that can function in harsh conditions. Their resilient nature makes them attractive candidates […]
For the past two decades, microbial monitoring of the International Space Station (ISS) has relied on culture-dependent methods that require return to Earth for analysis.
No instrument capable of direct life detection has been included on a mission payload to Mars since NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s. This prevents us from discovering whether life […]
The Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS) project successfully completed on-orbit genomic sequencing of microbes isolated from the ISS on April 29.
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 function during exposure […]
Long-term space exploration exposes humans to radiation that can damage deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, which carries the genetic information for our development and functioning. Conditions in space also affect the […]
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 […]
Editor’s note: when you find yourself in a field situation with little resource – one where you are trying to trace the spread of a epidemic or the impact a […]
[In September 2023] two UC Santa Cruz researchers were honored at the Library of Congress for the invention of nanopore sequencing, which became a new and revolutionary method to read […]
Space scientists have discovered a new process to test for life on Mars and on Earth, using cutting-edge technology to sequence DNA using the tiniest possible sample of DNA mass.
