Epigenomics in an extraterrestrial environment: organ-specific alteration of DNA methylation and gene expression elicited by spaceflight in Arabidopsis thaliana [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Plants adapted to diverse environments on Earth throughout their evolutionary history, and developed mechanisms to thrive in a variety of terrestrial habitats.
Mingqi Zhou +4 more
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Solvent constraints for biopolymer folding and evolution in extraterrestrial environments [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesWe propose that spontaneous folding and molecular evolution of biopolymers are two universal aspects that must concur for life to happen. These aspects are fundamentally related to the chemical composition of biopolymers and crucially depend on the solvent in which they are embedded. We show that molecular information theory and energy landscape theory
Ignacio E. Sánchez +2 more
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Low Energy Subsurface Environments as Extraterrestrial Analogs [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Earth's subsurface is often isolated from phototrophic energy sources and characterized by chemotrophic modes of life. These environments are often oligotrophic and limited in electron donors or electron acceptors, and include continental crust, subseafloor oceanic crust, and marine sediment as well as subglacial lakes and the subsurface of polar ...
Rose M. Jones +2 more
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Habitable planetary environments and extraterrestrial life [PDF]
Chinese Science Bulletin, 2016 Arguably one of the most important discoveries in the history of human being is the detection of a planet orbiting a main sequence star beyond the solar system. By the time Science celebrated its 125th anniversary, ~150 exoplanets have been discovered. However, there was no known habitable exoplanet.
Feng Tian
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Ionizing radiation resilience: how metabolically active lichens endure exposure to the simulated Mars atmosphere [PDF]
IMA FungusTo deepen our understanding of lichen adaptation and their potential to colonize extraterrestrial environments, we aimed to identify physiological/biochemical responses of selected lichen species in a metabolically active state to simulated Mars-like ...
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Photosynthesis and Photo-Stability of Nucleic Acids in Prebiotic Extraterrestrial Environments [PDF]
, 2014 Laboratory experiments have shown that the UV photo-irradiation of low-temperature ices of astrophysical interest leads to the formation of organic molecules, including molecules important for biology such as amino acids, quinones, and amphiphiles. When pyrimidine is introduced into these ices, the products of irradiation include the nucleobases uracil,
Scott A. Sandford +4 more
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Crop Production in an Extraterrestrial (Controlled-Environment, Microgravity) Environment
Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 2005 Jessica J. Prenger +8 more
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Insights into a remote cryosphere: a multi-method approach to assess permafrost occurrence at the Qugaqie basin, western Nyainqêntanglha Range, Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Permafrost as a climate-sensitive parameter and its occurrence and distribution play an important role in the observation of global warming. However, field-based permafrost distribution data and information on the subsurface ice content in the large area
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Guest editorial: Acoustic and related waves in extraterrestrial environments [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016 T.G. Leighton, Andi Petculescu
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A novel protein for bioremediation of gadolinium waste [PDF]
Protein Science, Volume 34, Issue 4, April 2025.Abstract Several hundreds of tons of gadolinium‐based contrast agents (GBCAs) are being dumped into the environment every year. Although macrocyclic GBCAs exhibit superior stability compared to their linear counterparts, we have found that the structural integrity of chelates is susceptible to ultraviolet light, regardless of configuration.
Harvey D. Lee +10 more
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