#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts

#Extremophiles that can digest #radiation ☢️ and toxicities are already used to clean up everything from oil spills to the fallout of radioactive sites.

This means we could #engineer microbes that are resistant to freezing ❄️ temperatures and high levels of radiation.

Given that #microbes 🦠 helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic #biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar process for #Mars 🔴 https://theconversation.com/how-to-engineer-microbes-to-enable-us-to-live-on-mars-253456

#CrisprCas9 #SyntheticBiology #Terraforming #Mars

Scientists discover #protein key to #bacteria's survival in extreme environments.

#extremophiles #sporulation #Bacillus #metabolism #protein #MdfA #nzymes #ClpC

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-protein-key-bacteria-survival.html

Simultaneous #aerobic and #anaerobic #respiration in a Yellowstone #thermophile challenges scientific norms

#mightymicrobes #extremophiles #chemolithotroph #genomic #metabolism #bacteria #archea #funded_by_NASA #funded_by_us

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-simultaneous-aerobic-anaerobic-respiration-yellowstone.html

New research finds marine #bacteria ditched their #flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean.

#Chloroflexota #extremophiles #evolution

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-marine-bacteria-ditched-flagella-traits.html