ABC Project Research results are released.
Key Points of the Announcement：
- To prove the existence of Martian life, high-sensitivity and high-precision analysis of the returned samples on Earth. However, to prevent the spread of Martian life to Earth, the returned samples need to be sterilized before analysis.
- They revealed that a treatment confining microbes within crystalline grains of calcium carbonate is a new method that achieves microbial inactivation while enabling high-sensitivity, high-precision analysis.
- Unlike traditional sterilization methods, this approach minimizes the destruction of biomolecules while rapidly deactivating viral infectivity within one minute. This method is also expected to be used as a cost-effective disinfection method for infection prevention.
(Source: Quoted from the University of Tokyo press release)
For more details, please refer to the University of Tokyo’s press release.
