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Revision as of 11:59, 24 June 2015
Project SpaceMoss
At SpaceMoss, we are working on a new breed of moss, designed to be able to live on Mars. Moss can be engineered to produce an almost limitless variety of compounds, and the implications are enormous. These very days, we are looking into what, exactly, our moss should produce, and it could be litterally anything. Should it be pharmaceuticals for the first colonists? Plastics for use in 3D printers on the first Mars outpost? Or even terraforming of the atmosphere? Follow our ideas, work, research and production through the next few months. I think we're in for one hell of a ride!
Red Lab and Green Lab
Red Lab
In the 'Red Lab', the team will expose the moss to harsh martian conditions, including extreme temperature differences, fake martian soil, radiation exposure, pressure and CO2 concentrations. More about Red LabGreen Lab
In the 'Green Lab', the team will attempt to make the moss more hardy by modifying it with an 'anti-freeze' gene from a ringworm. This amazing feature works by attaching onto the ends of the ice crystals forming in the cell, slowing down the growth of the crystals. Then, we will attempt to produce resveratrol in the moss, demonstrating the potential of using the hardy moss to produce pharmaceutical compounds, for example for medicines with short shelf lives. More about Green Lab