NASA Marshall Researchers Battle Biofilm in Space

A small group of scientists on the biofilm mitigation team at NASA’s Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, study solutions to combat fast-growing colonies of bacteria or fungi, known as biofilm, for future space missions. Biofilm occurs when a cluster of bacteria or fungi generates a slimy matrix of “extracellular polymeric substances” to protect itself […]
Posted on July 10, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

1
354
11
2
1
3
2
1
1
1
17
13
1
4
14
18
2
14
21
3
57
1
3
63
13
38
6
4
17
2
25
3
110
13
4
5
1
1
5
6
271
12
227
1
10
Io
5
1
1
155
10
10
3
10
1
8
14
1
1
2
379
30
4
642
45
2
2
10
6
17
1
1
2
29
198
7
3
1
6
1
203
1
6
1

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive