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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

An Electro-Microbial Process to Uncouple Food Production from Photosynthesis for Application in Space Exploration.

Philip J L Bell, Ferdinand E Paras, Sophia Mandarakas, Psyche Arcenal, Sinead Robinson-Cast, Anna S Grobler, Paul V Attfield

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Philip J L BellMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.
Ferdinand E ParasMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9047-5357
Sophia MandarakasMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.
Psyche ArcenalMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.
Sinead Robinson-CastMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.
Anna S GroblerMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7052-8271
Paul V AttfieldMicrobiogen Pty Ltd., Level 4, 78 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0862-2384

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here we propose the concept of an electro-microbial route to uncouple food production from photosynthesis, thereby enabling production of nutritious food in space without the need to grow plant-based crops. In the proposed process, carbon dioxide is fixed into ethanol using either chemical catalysis or microbial carbon fixation, and the ethanol created is used as a carbon source for yeast to synthesize food for human or animal consumption. The process depends upon technologies that can utilize electrical energy to fix carbon into ethanol and uses an optimized strain of the yeast

Indexed as

bioregenerative food productionlife support systemsSaccharomyces yeastsspace exploration

Identifiers

PMID35888090
PMCPMC9317029
OpenAlexW4283824687

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