Astronauts need nutrition on longer space flights. One potential source? Their urine
Scientists are engineering yeast to use human urine and breath as a way to make omega-3 fatty acids to keep astronauts healthy during longer space flights.
by Catherine Caruso
Aug 22, 2017
3 minutes
You can’t get fresh salmon in space, but astronauts may one day be able to get the vital nutrients the fish provide — by recycling their urine and exhaled breaths.
Chemical engineers at Clemson University are bioengineering yeast to use human urine and breath to make omega-3 fatty acids, the vitamins humans need for heart, eye, and brain health that are found in fish such as salmon. It’s still in the
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