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Away Team Tech: Self-Contained Device Isolates Biological Samples

by Keith Cowing

Overview JSC is looking to interested parties to license and commercialize this patented technology. Innovators at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) developed a patented self-contained device for isolating deoxyribonucleic acid […]

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Tricorder Tech: Life Detection Technology – Development of Solid-State Nanopore

by Keith Cowing

Biomarkers collected from past and present life on Earth are a central guide in the development of flight-ready technologies designed to search for life on other planets and moons. Data […]

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Tricorder Tech: Development Of Solid-State Nanopore Technology For Life Detection

by Keith Cowing

Introduction: Biomarkers for life on Earth are an important starting point to guide the search for life elsewhere. However, the search for life beyond Earth should incorporate technologies capable of […]

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