Bacterial Genetics Could Help Researchers Block Interplanetary Contamination
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Home Archive August 2018 Notebook Identifying microbes from Earth that can survive on spacecraft may help scientists eliminate…
Home Archive August 2018 Notebook Identifying microbes from Earth that can survive on spacecraft may help scientists eliminate…
In the 1971 sci-fi thriller The Andromeda Strain, a satellite carrying an alien microbe crashes into Earth. The microbe kills…
Some microbes can resist decontamination before space flight, but this may not be because they are armed with additional genes…
The current process for planetary protection policy development is inadequate to respond to increasingly complex solar system…