Astroplastic: A start-to-finish process for polyhydroxybutyrate production from solid human waste using genetically engineered bacteria to address the challenges for future manned Mars missions
Xingyu Chen, Atika Syeda, Alina Kunitskaya, Kaitlin Schaaf, Zi Fei Wang, Preetha Gopalakrishan, Maliyat Noor, Harry Wilton-Clark, Jacob Grainger, Alexandra Ivanova, Patricia Lim, Michaela Olsakova, Lalit Bharadwaj, Bilal Ali Sher, David D. Feehan, , Mayi Y. Arcellana‐Panlilio
This paper describes the development of a process called Astroplastic to produce polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) from solid human waste using genetically engineered bacteria for sustainable waste management in future Mars missions.
bioRxiv · Apr 2, 2018 · PreprintSynthetic Biology