开发一个空间生物制造的替代媒介.
Hakyung Lee1, Jinjin Diao2, Yuxin Tian1,3
1Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
Nature communications
|January 17, 2025
概括
本研究引入了替代原料驱动的现场生物制造 (AF-ISM),以使太空生物制造具有成本效益. 研究人员使用火星规律石,回收塑料和废物,在微重力条件下生产了烯,相当于地球的生产水平.
科学领域:
- 天体生物学 天体生物学
- 生物技术是生物技术.
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
背景情况:
- 长期的人类太空任务需要可持续的,自给自足的生命支持系统.
- 目前在太空中的生物制造依赖于地球提供的原料,阻碍了经济可行性和可扩展性.
- 减少对地球补给的依赖对于外星人居住至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 开发和评估一种替代原料驱动的现场生物制造 (AF-ISM) 工艺.
- 评估在太空中生物制造新原料的利用情况.
- 为了确定AF-ISM的经济可行性,以生产像利科这样有价值的化合物.
主要方法:
- 研究的火星/月球 regolith,回收聚乙烯二甲 (PET) 和便废物作为替代原料 (AF).
- 使用Rhodococcus jostiiPET菌株S6 (RPET S6) 用于烯的生产.
- 在模拟的微重力条件下进行实验,并进行经济分析.
主要成果:
- RPET S6成功地使用了对矿物质的要求的规质模拟剂.
- 无氧预处理的便废物增强了RPET S6细胞生长.
- 使用AF在微重力条件下生产烯与以地球为基础的生产相当.
- 与传统方法相比,AF-ISM显示显著降低了成本.
结论:
- AF-ISM是一种可行的策略,可以减少对地球原料的依赖,用于太空生物制造.
- 使用规石,回收PET和废物提供了一个可持续的原料解决方案.
- 这种方法显著提高了建立自给自足的外星息地的经济可行性.
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