Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository.

cryopreservation ethics extinction fibroblast cells fishes the Moon

Journal

Bioscience
ISSN: 0006-3568
Titre abrégé: Bioscience
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0231737

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2024
Historique:
received: 08 02 2024
revised: 15 05 2024
accepted: 22 05 2024
medline: 4 9 2024
pubmed: 4 9 2024
entrez: 4 9 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

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,

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae058 PMID: 39229623 PMC: PMC11367668
pubmed: 39229623
doi: 10.1093/biosci/biae058
pii: biae058
pmc: PMC11367668
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

561-566

Informations de copyright

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Institute of Biological Sciences 2024.

Auteurs

Mary Hagedorn (M)

Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, HI, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0558-2340

Lynne R Parenti (LR)

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3279-7689

Robert A Craddock (RA)

Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1671-3745

Pierre Comizzoli (P)

Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Office of the Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research Washington, DC, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3079-9063

Paula Mabee (P)

NEON, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8455-3213

Bonnie Meinke (B)

External Engagement and Business Development, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO, United States of America.

Susan M Wolf (SM)

McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Drinker Professor of Law, Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9547-2200

John C Bischof (JC)

McKnight University Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6726-7111

Rebecca D Sandlin (RD)

Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.

Shannon N Tessier (SN)

Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2373-232X

Mehmet Toner (M)

Bioengineering, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Shriners Children's Boston, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA, United States of America.

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