Re:How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
by breck on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:34PM
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Are there machines that can sift through a sample of dirt, detect cells and isolate them for library prep and sequencing? Or are you thinking of human missions to Mars?
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Re:How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
by Firadeoclus on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:13AM
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It seems likely that there will be such machines within a few years. There is nothing in this procedure which can't be automated using existing technology.