This is really fascinating: Source: Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
Hat tip to Elisabeth Bik for posting about this on Twitter
So cool: microbes actually feed on the cleaning products. Also cool: undergraduates as authors.
Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft https://t.co/ox4kMawHko— Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) June 2, 2018
Full paper here:
Rakesh Mogul et al. Metabolism and Biodegradation of Spacecraft Cleaning Reagents by Strains of Spacecraft-Associated Acinetobacter, Astrobiology (2018). DOI: 10.1089/ast.2017.1814