September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...monitoring of crew health and performance, regulating labour and rest, providing psychological support to crews, monitoring microbiological and radiation conditions, and providing medical support for extravehicular activities. Staff have made a great...
24 February 2016
Final interview for Scott Kelly tomorrow before his return to Earth
... on the body and mind in space and has thus focused on four areas: human physiology, behavioural health, microbiology/microbiome, and molecular or -omics studies. Analysis of the tests will hopefully provide broader insights into the...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... is several months or years in the shortest orbit," says Dr. Yamagishi. To date, this work which is now published in Frontiers in Microbiology, provides the best estimate of bacterial survival in space say the team, and adds a new method of existence...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
.... "We kept finding organisms in these systems that were supported by hydrogen gas," said Eric Boyd at MSU's Department of Microbiology and Immunology and an author on the recent study. "It initially didn't make sense, because we couldn't figure out...
