March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... bio products. Prolonged exposure to the hazardous condition of the chamber will ultimately most likely result in natural mutation of the bacteria in order to adapt to the extreme environment. Plate with Cyanoacteria (top left) after exposure...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... on human skin extended exposure strips electrons off the DNA molecules in the nucleus of skin cells, causing mutations that can result in cancer. The Sun emits a lot of ultraviolet light but we are protected from most...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... exposure include cancer, reduced fertility, cataracts, cardiovascular and central nervous systems problems, and inheritable genetic mutations. Particularly intense exposure at one time can result in acute radiation syndrome (ARS), which can lead...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... dis-incarnated artificial intelligence are booming. It is the realm of very fine engineering disciplines that have slowly mutated into buzz words for market reviews: ‘the cloud’, ‘deep learning’, ‘neural networks’, etc. The flying...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... radiation, or when astronauts return from the ISS. Do they have the same or higher levels of misrepair and mutations? In terms of radiation exposure, we are trying to establish what is going on in an astronaut’s body after a mission lasting six...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
...develop into adult specimens, despite increasing in ovicell number and size. Moreover, the frequency of dominant lethal mutations in spermatozoa under spaceflight conditions was higher than expected, especially in their immature forms (spermatids and...
