Articles for tag: conservation, cryopreservation, Global Health, microbial diversity, microbiome, Microbiota Vault

Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory display the thick-walled aluminum vault

The Microbial Vault: How Scientists Are Racing to Preserve Earth’s Invisible Biodiversity

April Joy Jovita

As Earth enters an age of rapid ecological change, a quiet revolution is taking place in freezers chilled to -80°C. Scientists around the world are building a “Microbial Noah’s Ark”—a global effort to preserve the planet’s microbial diversity before it’s lost to industrialization, climate shifts, and modern living. The Microbiota Vault Initiative, modeled in part ...