The widespread use of plastics has led to their increasing presence in the environment and
subsequent pollution. Some microorganisms degrade plastics in natural ecosystems and the …

Bacterial growth at low pressure is a new research area with implications for predicting
microbial activity in clouds and the bulk atmosphere on Earth and for modeling the forward …

To comprehensively assess microbial diversity and abundance via molecular-analysis-
based methods, procedures for sample collection, processing, and analysis were evaluated …

A special focus area of planetary protection is the monitoring, control, and reduction of
microbial contaminations that are detected on spacecraft components and hardware during …

Because of their ubiquity and resistance to spacecraft decontamination, bacterial spores are
considered likely potential forward contaminants on robotic missions to Mars. Thus, it is …

For several reasons, spacecraft are constructed in so-called clean rooms. Particles could
affect the function of spacecraft instruments, and for missions under planetary protection …

The space environment contains high-energy charged particles (eg, protons, neutrons,
electrons, α-particles, heavy ions) emitted by the Sun and galactic sources or trapped in the …

As part of the PROTECT experiment of the EXPOSE-E mission on board the International
Space Station (ISS), the mutagenic efficiency of space was studied in spores of Bacillus …

The use of film media involves considerably less preparation, waste, and incubator space
than conventional agar-media-based assays and has proven in past studies to provide …

Spores of wild-type and mutant Bacillus subtilis strains lacking various structural
components were exposed to simulated Martian atmospheric and UV irradiation conditions …