https://www.newscientist.com/article/2172270-colonists-could-use-genetically-modified-bacteria-to-settle-mars/

Lynn Rothschild at the NASA Ames Research Center thinks synthetic biology is the key to exploring and colonising other planets like Mars. It could allow key materials and even machinery to be grown locally rather than brought all the way from Earth at …

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