Recent Advances in Extremophiles: From Life at Edge on Earth to Space Exploration: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Astrobiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 3895
Special Issue Editor
Interests: astrobiology; extreme environments; cyanobacteria; molecular biology
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, extremophiles have gained great attention as industrial biotechnology platforms for producing a wide variety of bio-products, ranging from biofuels to high-value bioactive and recombinant proteins. In addition, they hold promise as robust chassis to synthesize desired products through synthetic genetic circuits. More recently, they have gained attention for the limit of life as we know it and the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth, including planets orbiting other stars, as well as for the identification of suitable biomarkers to search for life. New insights have been provided by experiments that exposed extremophiles to open space and to laboratory simulations that mimic Mars, icy moons and exoplanetary conditions. This Special Issue invites original research papers and reviews that cover the latest research challenges in extremophiles from biotechnological and synthetic biology applications on Earth and in space to astrobiology.
Prof. Dr. Daniela Billi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- extremophiles
- extreme environments
- planetary analogs
- biotechnology
- synthetic biology
- astrobiology
- space exploration
- life support
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