With the construction of the International Space Station, humans have been continuously
living and working in space for 22 years. Microbial studies in space and other extreme …

Indoor environments serve as habitat for humans and are replete with various reservoirs and
niches for microorganisms. Microorganisms enter indoor spaces with their human and non …

Maintenance of astronaut health during spaceflight will require monitoring and potentially
modulating their microbiomes. However, documenting microbial shifts during spaceflight has …

Resolving the distribution of specific proteins at the nanoscale in the ultrastructural context of
the cell is a major challenge in fluorescence microscopy. We report the discovery of a new …

During space missions, astronauts are faced with a variety of challenges that are unique to
spaceflight and that have been known to cause physiological changes in humans over a …

The human microbiota encompasses the diverse communities of microorganisms that reside
in, on, and around various parts of the human body, such as the skin, nasal passages, and …

Microbial research in space is being conducted for almost 50 years now. The closed system
of the International Space Station (ISS) has acted as a microbial observatory for the past 10 …

The International Space Station (ISS) is a complex built environment physically isolated from
Earth. Assessing the interplay between the microbial community of the ISS and its crew is …

Four strains belonging to the family of Methylobacteriaceae were isolated from different
locations on the International Space Station (ISS) across two consecutive flights. Of these …

Background Monitoring the adaptation of microorganisms to the extreme environment of the
International Space Station (ISS) is crucial to understanding microbial evolution and …