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<i>In Situ</i> Real-Time Monitoring for Aseptic Drilling: Lessons Learned from the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation and Application to the Icebreaker Mars Life Detection Mission

scientific article published in 2023

A 200-antibody microarray biochip for environmental monitoring: searching for universal microbial biomarkers through immunoprofiling

scientific article

A Mission Simulating the Search for Life on Mars with Automated Drilling, Sample Handling, and Life Detection Instruments Performed in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

scientific article published in December 2023

A Multiplex Immunosensor for Detecting Perchlorate-Reducing Bacteria for Environmental Monitoring and Planetary Exploration

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

A microbial oasis in the hypersaline Atacama subsurface discovered by a life detector chip: implications for the search for life on Mars

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

Amplification of low quantity bacterial RNA for microarray studies: time-course analysis of Leptospirillum ferrooxidans under nitrogen-fixing conditions

scientific article published in June 2006

An oligonucleotide prokaryotic acidophile microarray: its validation and its use to monitor seasonal variations in extreme acidic environments with total environmental RNA.

scientific article

Analysis of environmental transcriptomes by DNA microarrays.

scientific article

Biomarker Profiling of Microbial Mats in the Geothermal Band of Cerro Caliente, Deception Island (Antarctica): Life at the Edge of Heat and cold.

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Biomarkers and Metabolic Patterns in the Sediments of Evolving Glacial Lakes as a Proxy for Planetary Lake Exploration.

scientific article

Biosignature Detection and MinION Sequencing of Antarctic Cryptoendoliths After Exposure to Mars Simulation Conditions

scientific article published in January 2024

Classification of modern and old Río Tinto sedimentary deposits through the biomolecular record using a life marker biochip: implications for detecting life on Mars

scientific article published on January 2011

Comparative genomic analysis reveals novel facts about Leptospirillum spp. cytochromes

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Dark microbiome and extremely low organics in Atacama fossil delta unveil Mars life detection limits

scientific article published on 21 February 2023

Deep subsurface sulfate reduction and methanogenesis in the Iberian Pyrite Belt revealed through geochemistry and molecular biomarkers.

scientific article

Detecting Nonvolatile Life- and Nonlife-Derived Organics in a Carbonaceous Chondrite Analogue with a New Multiplex Immunoassay and Its Relevance for Planetary Exploration.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Differential Gene Expression of Industrial Bioleaching Transcriptomes by &lt;i&gt;Leptospirillum Ferrooxidans&lt;/i&gt; DNA Microarray

scientific article published in May 2009

Dynamic of active microorganisms inhabiting a bioleaching industrial heap of low-grade copper sulfide ore monitored by real-time PCR and oligonucleotide prokaryotic acidophile microarray.

scientific article

Environmental parameters, and not phylogeny, determine the composition of extracellular polymeric substances in microbial mats from extreme environments

article

Environmental transcriptome analysis reveals physiological differences between biofilm and planktonic modes of life of the iron oxidizing bacteria Leptospirillum spp. in their natural microbial community.

scientific article

Evaluation of Leptospirillum spp. in the Río Tinto, a model of interest to biohydrometallurgy

scientific article published in November 2008

Experimental Protocol for Detecting Cyanobacteria in Liquid and Solid Samples with an Antibody Microarray Chip

scientific article

Gene function analysis in environmental isolates: the nif regulon of the strict iron oxidizing bacterium Leptospirillum ferrooxidans

scientific article

Genome-wide analysis reveals increased levels of transcripts related with infectivity in peanut lectin non-agglutinated promastigotes of Leishmania infantum.

scientific article

Geomicrobiological Heterogeneity of Lithic Habitats in the Extreme Environment of Antarctic Nunataks: A Potential Early Mars Analog

scientific article published in 2021

Immunoanalytical Approach for Detecting and Identifying Ancestral Peptide Biomarkers in Early Earth Analogue Environments

scientific article published on 28 March 2023

In vitro infectivity and differential gene expression of Leishmania infantum metacyclic promastigotes: negative selection with peanut agglutinin in culture versus isolation from the stomodeal valve of Phlebotomus perniciosus

scientific article

Instrument development to search for biomarkers on mars: Terrestrial acidophile, iron-powered chemolithoautotrophic communities as model systems

article

Life Detection and Microbial Biomarker Profiling with Signs of Life Detector-Life Detector Chip During a Mars Drilling Simulation Campaign in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert

scientific article published in December 2023

Lipid Profiles From Fresh Biofilms Along a Temperature Gradient on a Hydrothermal Stream at El Tatio (Chilean Andes), as a Proxy for the Interpretation of Past and Present Biomarkers Beyond Earth

scientific article published in 2022

Mars-like UV Flux and Ionizing Radiation Differently Affect Biomarker Detectability in the Desert Cyanobacterium <i>Chroococcidiopsis</i> as Revealed by the Life Detector Chip Antibody Microarray

scientific article published in 2022

Metatranscriptomic analysis of extremely halophilic viral communities.

scientific article

Microbial Ecology of &lt;i&gt;Leptospirillum&lt;/i&gt; spp. in Río Tinto, a Model of Interest to Biohydrometallurgy

scientific article published on 15 July 2007

Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycle in the Benthic Sediments of a Glacial Oligotrophic Deep Andean Lake as Analog of Ancient Martian Lake-Beds

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Molecular preservation in halite- and perchlorate-rich hypersaline subsurface deposits in the Salar Grande basin (Atacama Desert, Chile): Implications for the search for molecular biomarkers on Mars

article

Multiplex Fluorescent Antibody Microarrays and Antibody Graphs for Microbial and Biomarker Detection in the Environment

scientific article published in 2015

Nitrogen fixation in acidophile iron-oxidizing bacteria: the nif regulon of Leptospirillum ferrooxidans

scientific article published in November 2004

Prokaryotic Community Structure and Metabolisms in Shallow Subsurface of Atacama Desert Playas and Alluvial Fans After Heavy Rains: Repairing and Preparing for Next Dry Period

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Prokaryotic and viral community of the sulfate-rich crust from Peñahueca ephemeral lake, an astrobiology analogue

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Prokaryotic communities and operating metabolisms in the surface and the permafrost of Deception Island (Antarctica).

scientific article

SOLID2: an antibody array-based life-detector instrument in a Mars Drilling Simulation Experiment (MARTE).

scientific article published on October 2008

SOLID3: a multiplex antibody microarray-based optical sensor instrument for in situ life detection in planetary exploration.

scientific article published on January 2011

STEC-EPEC Oligonucleotide Microarray: A New Tool for Typing Genetic Variants of the LEE Pathogenicity Island of Human and Animal Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) Strains

scientific article published on 29 December 2005

Simulating Mars Drilling Mission for Searching for Life: Ground-Truthing Lipids and Other Complex Microbial Biomarkers in the Iron-Sulfur Rich Río Tinto Analog

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Solid: an antibody microarray-based instrument for life detection and planetary exploration

scientific article published on 2 October 2006

Temperature increase prevails over acidification in gene expression modulation of amastigote differentiation in Leishmania infantum

scientific article

The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project

scientific article published in December 2023

The Complex Molecules Detector (CMOLD): A Fluidic-Based Instrument Suite to Search for (Bio)chemical Complexity on Mars and Icy Moons

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Time-Integrative Multibiomarker Detection in Triassic–Jurassic Rocks from the Atacama Desert: Relevance to the Search for Basic Life Beyond Earth

scientific article published in November 2021

Transposase interaction with the β sliding clamp: effects on insertion sequence proliferation and transposition rate

scientific article

Unveiling viral-host interactions within the 'microbial dark matter'.

scientific article published on 14 August 2014

Viable cyanobacteria in the deep continental subsurface

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Watershed-Induced Limnological and Microbial Status in Two Oligotrophic Andean Lakes Exposed to the Same Climatic Scenario.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

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