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Our Space Paper is Out!

Last year Mr. Eytan Stibbe was the second Israeli astronaut to exit Earth. Eytan conducted many experiments during his stay at the International Space Station, and one of them was ours! He tested the functionality of the CRISPR-Cas12a-based molecular detection system. This system involves two enzymatic reactions, and now we can report that the system works very well in microgravity, opening the door for developing Cas12a-based diagnostics kits for astronauts!

 

Read our full paper here; it's open access!
 

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Our Space Experiment is Getting Attention! (Updating)

  • gurpines
  • Dec 20, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 23, 2022

We (in collaboration with the Burstein Lab) are planning to test the Cas12-based detection technology in microgravity onboard the International Space Station. Currently, the launch is scheduled to be during the last week of February 2022.


Here are some media attention our experiment has recently got:


"Makor Rishon" (Sep. 22, 2021, Hebrew)

"Haaretz" (Dec. 16, 2021, Hebrew, paywall)

"Ynet" (March 14th, 2022Hebrew)

"Little Big, Science" (April 10, 2022, מדע גדול, בקטנה, Hebrew)

"Ynet" (June 9th, 2022, Hebrew, 2nd article)

"3 who know" (שלושה שיודעים) Hebrew radio interview (starts at 5:50)



 
 
 

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