Engineering Biology for Space Health: An Innovative Research Roadmap

Publication Date: October 2024

This EBRC technical research roadmap, Engineering Biology for Space Health, provides a detailed evaluation of opportunities for engineering biology to improve human health and well-being during space exploration missions and help solve societal challenges here on Earth. Keeping humans alive on ever-longer and ever-further missions into space will require the sustainable production and access to food, new and more efficient and effective health and medicine capabilities, and enabling and ensuring resources to support life and control the local environment, particularly when those resources are limited. This roadmap is intended to guide technical research and development, investment, and programmatic decisions into engineering biology tools and technologies that will help overcome the challenges of extended space travel.

View with EBRC’s other roadmaps at https://roadmap.ebrc.org/engineering-biology-for-space-health 

Citation: Engineering Biology Research Consortium (2024). Engineering Biology for Space Health: An Innovative Research Roadmap. Retrieved from http://roadmap.ebrc.org. doi: 10.25498/E4D59R

Keywords: engineering biology, synthetic biology, industrial biotechnology, agriculture, food, environment, energy, biotechnology, bioeconomy, roadmap, materials, space health.

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