September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
..., which was ranked the best university in the world at the time. It is there that I was able to add microbiology, environmental science and geobiology to my studies. Furthermore, at Caltech I was able to do hands-on research and Prof John Grotzinger...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
...time, MBPI RAS scientists are working on a number of applied solutions to increase the effectiveness of the current system of microbiological safety for piloted spaceflights. The most important of these are the development of methods that will ensure...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
... the Space Nation, studied changes in a range of factors in female volunteers in long-term isolation in a pressurised facility: microbiological, immunological and bone status; body composition; mineral and bone exchange and electrolyte and hormone...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... in space - technology that led to the creation of a baby monitoring system to protect against cot deaths. Similarly, microbiological sensors for space applications can be used to detect contamination for better water treatment, and NASA’s handling...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... Society and founder of the Tunisian Association for Biotechnology students. Najla Ben Miloud is the head of the microbiology and molecular biology laboratory at the National Center for Nuclear Science & Technologies in Tunisia, where she is leading...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
...drying. Properly selected thermal sterilisation provides for the microbiological safety of the food item, but also results ... both hot and cold good digestibility and absorption microbiological safety throughout the entire period of storage. Besides...
