Cassini revealed that Saturn's Moon Enceladus hosts a subsurface ocean that meets the
accepted criteria for habitability with bio-essential elements and compounds, liquid water …

Global health issues are increasingly becoming critical with high fatality rate due to chronic
and infectious diseases. Emerging technologies aim to address these problems by …

Enceladus is the first planetary object for which direct sampling of a subsurface water
reservoir, likely habitable, has been performed. Over a decade of flybys and seven …

Organic chemistry is ubiquitous in the Solar System, and both Mars and a number of icy
satellites of the outer Solar System show substantial promise for having hosted or hosting …

Quantitative phase imaging and digital holographic microscopy have shown great promise
for visualizing the motion, structure, and physiology of microorganisms and mammalian cells …

Parallel phase-shifting digital holography (PPSDH) employing a polarization image sensor
can suppress zero-order and twin-image noise through a single exposure, achieve …

(1) Background: Future missions to potentially habitable places in the Solar System require
biochemistry-independent methods for detecting potential alien life forms. The technology …

We report a simple, inexpensive design of a fluorescence microscope with light-emitting
diode (LED) excitation for detection of labeled and unlabeled microorganisms in mineral …

To address the problem of the time-sharing recording of dual-wavelength low-coherence
holograms while avoiding the use of customized achromatic optical elements, a snapshot …

Motility is a great biosignature and its pattern is characteristic for specific microbes.
However, motion does also occur within the cell by the myriads of ongoing processes within …