ArticleBioscience2024
Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository.
Article in Bioscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Inducing radiation resilience in frozen animal cells via mRNA coding for tardigrade damage-suppressor protein in support of space travel and Lunar storage.The Journal of heredity · 2026Article
- Biobanking biodiversity: recent strategies, challenges, and opportunities.The Journal of reproduction and development · 2026Review
- Thermodynamic Principles of Emerging Cryopreservation Technologies.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Review
- The challenges and prospects of mammalian reproduction in extraterrestrial environments.The Journal of reproduction and development · 2026Review
- Higher glass transition temperatures reduce thermal stress cracking in aqueous solutions relevant to cryopreservation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Can Humanity Thrive Beyond the Galaxy?The Journal of reproduction and development · 2025Review
- The Sixth Mass Extinction and Amphibian Species Sustainability Through Reproduction and Advanced Biotechnologies, Biobanking of Germplasm and Somatic Cells, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Earth's biodiversity is increasingly threatened and at risk. We propose a passive lunar biorepository for long-term storage of prioritized taxa of live cryopreserved samples to safeguard Earth's biodiversity and to support future space exploration and planet terraforming. Our initial focus will be on cryopreserving animal skin samples with fibroblast cells. An exemplar system has been developed using cryopreserved fish fins from the Starry Goby,
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