Congrats to Edwin, Hooman & the team on their new paper!

It may actually be possible to warm Mars up enough to grow plants outside 🍀

Follow along as we engineer microbes for Mars. 🚀🦠 Check out our open science update, complete with direct links to the primary literature - our lab notebooks! We can reliably measure salt tolerance 📏🧂 open.substack.com/pub/pioneerlab…

Can we reinvent scientific publishing to add value to research, rather than be a time sink? 👩‍🔬 Here's the first science-heavy update from Pioneer Labs, where we engineer microbes for Mars. 🚀🦠 This post is complete with direct links to the primary literature... our lab notes!

Pioneer Labs is recruiting! We're a nonprofit on a mission to engineer the first microbes that will be used on Mars. 🚀🌻 We’re looking for a Research Associate (in-person in Dogpatch, San Francisco) to join the team in Dec '24/ Jan '25 jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/8f1efdd…

🚀 Big news! Erika Alden DeBenedictis from PioneerLabs and Raj Panjabi M.D. from Flagship Pioneering are speaking at #SynBioBeta2025! 🌟 Don’t miss their bold ideas. Register today for May 5-8 in San Jose! #HealthcareInnovation #FutureOfBiotech #TechForGood

Our newest open science update about engineering microbes for Mars! 🚀🦠 We fragmented a halophilic genome 🔪, built functional libraries 🪡 and selected them 🤼 to find genes that measurably 📏 improved salt tolerance🛠🧂! Lab notebook links included. open.substack.com/pub/pioneerlab…

Check out 🏆A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt, where we present a receipt for soluble Mars Regolith Media (sMRM) that best simulates what you’d get if you added water to Mars dirt. Will anything grow in this media? Stay tuned! 💧+ 🪨 → 🌱 ? open.substack.com/pub/pioneerlab…

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"There are no excuses in space for continuing to use technologies that we now know aren't sustainable" 🚀🌼🍀

It was so cool for PioneerLabs to be featured on Planetary Radio and get to meet Mat Kaplan!! When I was first tuning back in to the space science community a few years ago this was where I got my news 🤩 Planetary Radio open.spotify.com/episode/51p3Ej…

We’re excited to welcome our first residency cohort! This exceptional group of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs embodies our mission of creating public goods through open science and technology.

Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology. Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼 What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars! 👇

Today I and 11 other scientists describe in Nature Astronomy how recent breakthroughs in launch capabilities, climate, and synthetic biology demand a new assessment of the feasibility of terraforming Mars. Edwin Kite Dr. Nina Lanza Charles Cockell Ramses Ramirez John Cumbers

If we terraform Mars, it would be a powerful example of human civilization having a net *positive* impact on the surrounding environment.