{"id":194074,"date":"2024-08-05T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/these-scientists-want-to-safeguard-earths-species-by-cryogenically-preserving-them-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:24:26","slug":"these-scientists-want-to-safeguard-earths-species-by-cryogenically-preserving-them-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/these-scientists-want-to-safeguard-earths-species-by-cryogenically-preserving-them-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"These scientists want to safeguard Earth\u2019s species by cryogenically preserving them on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-scientists-want-to-safeguard-earths-species-by-cryogenically-preserving-them-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists has devised a plan to safeguard <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/07\/14\/climate\/florida-cactus-sea-level-rise\/index.html\">Earth\u2019s species<\/a> in a cryogenic biorepository <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/07\/20\/science\/moon-cave-science-newsletter-wt\/index.html\">on the moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Intended to save species in the event of a disaster on Earth, the plan makes use of craters that are permanently in shadow and therefore cold enough to allow cryogenic preservation of biological material without using electricity or liquid nitrogen, according to research from a group led by scientists at the Smithsonian, published last week.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/article-lookup\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biae058\" target=\"_blank\">BioScience<\/a>, draws on the successful cryopreservation of skin samples from a fish, and outlines a method for creating a biorepository that would keep samples of other species safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists has devised a plan to safeguard Earth\u2019s species in a cryogenic biorepository on the moon. Intended to save species in the event of a disaster on Earth, the plan makes use of craters that are permanently in shadow and therefore cold enough to allow cryogenic preservation of biological material without using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}