These audio files and transcripts are segments of an interview with Mike Flynn, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Flynn talks about how NASA and partners are adapting a prototype instrument and compact discs (CD) that contain embedded laboratory tests capable of conducting biological evaluations that could be used to detect life forms and chemicals derived from life.
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- Question One: What can labs on a CD do? (36 SECONDS)
- Question Two: What does the machine that processes the CDs with biological samples look like, and how does it work?
(1:22 MINUTES)- Question Three: How do the dyes work inside the CD to help you detect biological-related substances? (37 SECONDS)
- Question Four: Please describe a simple test with the CDs and dyes that finds live and dead bacteria levels in a sample.
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