Students looking into bioengineering bacteria to help humans survive on Mars
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- If after a lot of study, scientists decide that there just isnt anything living on Mars, would it be wrong to introduce life there, engineered from organisms here on Earth? That may be a question in search of an answer soon, as right now, researchers are looking into creating bacteria that would be able to survive the harsh Martian environment and that could be used for such things as creating building materials or helping to grow food. More specifically, a team of students from Brown and Stanford Universities, as part of an international competition among college students, is working on ways to create microorganisms that could be useful to people, should we ever send them to colonize the red planet.