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Ultimate test’: MIT gives probiotic bacteria space-resilient superpower
MIT creates the right mix of ingredients to protect probiotics and other helpful microbes from harsh industrial processes.
“What this project was about is stabilizing organisms for extreme conditions,” explained Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and senior author of the study just published in Nature Materials. In a robust experiment, they worked with three bacterium and one yeast that play significant roles in plant growth ( Ensifer meliloti), food products(Lactobacillus plantarum), andasprobiotics(Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 and Saccharomyces boulardii). “Even just the shipping on Earth to the preflight validation, and storage until flight are part of this test, with no temperature control along the way,” lead author of the study Miguel Jimenez added in a press release.
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