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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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We are going to space!

  • gurpines
  • May 6, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: May 9, 2021

Well, not WE, but our experiment does! On May 5th, 2021 the Ramon foundation declared which experiments they will send to the International Space Station with the second Israeli astronaut, Eytan Stibbe, and our experiment was in!


The experiment, designed together with Dudu Burstein from Tel Aviv University, will test DNA identification via Cas12 in microgravity. Cas12-based detection is getting a lot of attention here on Earth, but we think it could be very significant in future long space travels as well, when the astronauts are far away from medical personnel and are expected to grow their own food.


For more info about the technology, take a look at our preprint blog post!





We even have a project logo


From the left, Dudu, Dan, and Gur

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Dudu and Gur, busy at planning the experiment

 
 
 

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