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Heterogeneity of rock-hosted microbial communities in a serpentinizing aquifer of the Coast Range Ophiolite. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolThe movement of groundwater through fractured bedrock provides favorable conditions for subsurface microbial life, characterized by constrained flow pathways and distinctive local environmental conditions.
Twing KI +11 more
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Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2021 The fields of developmental biology, biomedicine, and artificial life are being revolutionized by advances in synthetic morphology. The next phase of synthetic biology and bioengineering is resulting in the construction of novel organisms (biobots ...
Charles I. Abramson, Michael Levin
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mSystems, 2021 In recent years, our appreciation of the extent of habitable environments in Earth’s subsurface has greatly expanded, as has our understanding of the biodiversity contained within.
Lindsay I. Putman +7 more
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High-Quality Genome-Scale Models From Error-Prone, Long-Read Assemblies
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Advances in nanopore-based sequencing techniques have enabled rapid characterization of genomes and transcriptomes. An emerging application of this sequencing technology is point-of-care characterization of pathogenic bacteria.
Jared T. Broddrick +5 more
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Eurypsychrophilic acidophiles: From (meta)genomes to low-temperature biotechnologies
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Low temperature and acidic environments encompass natural milieus such as acid rock drainage in Antarctica and anthropogenic sites including drained sulfidic sediments in Scandinavia.
Mark Dopson +5 more
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iScience, 2021 Summary: Monitoring microbial communities aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is essential to maintaining astronaut health and the integrity of life-support systems.
Michael D. Lee +5 more
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ESA ExoMars: Pre-launch PanCam Geometric Modeling and Accuracy Assessment [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 ExoMars is the flagship mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) Aurora Programme. The mobile scientific platform, or rover, will carry a drill and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research.
D. Li, R Li, A. Yilmaz
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Establishment of the Coast Range ophiolite microbial observatory (CROMO): drilling objectives and preliminary outcomes [PDF]
Scientific Drilling, 2013 This project aimed to establish a subsurface microbial observatory in ultramafic rocks, by drilling into an actively serpentinizing peridotite body, characterizing cored rocks, and outfitting the boreholes for a program of long-term observation and ...
D. Cardace +6 more
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Crop growth and viability of seeds on Mars and Moon soil simulants
Open Agriculture, 2019 If humans are going to establish a base on the Moon or on Mars they will have to grow their own crops. An option is to use Lunar and Martian regolith. These regoliths are not available for plant growth experiments, therefore NASA has developed regolith ...
Wamelink G.W.W. +3 more
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Microbial mediation of textures and minerals – terrestrial or parent body processes?
Open Astronomy, 2019 Evolution of chondritic parent body is influenced by thermal, impact metamorphism and aqueous alteration, studied in Mező-Madaras, Knyahinya, Mócs and Nyírábrány in aspect of high resolution in situ textural, mineralogical and organic geochemical ...
Polgári Márta +5 more
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