Functional Activity of Plasmid DNA after Entry into the Atmosphere of Earth Investigated by a New Biomarker Stability Assay for Ballistic Spaceflight Experiments

• Cora S. Thiel ,

  * E-mail: cora.thiel@uzh.ch (CT); oliver.ullrich@uzh.ch (OU)

  Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Svantje Tauber,

  Affiliations Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Machine Design, Engineering Design and Product Development, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Andreas Schütte,

  Affiliation Airbus DS, Airbus-Allee 1, Bremen, Germany

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• Burkhard Schmitz,

  Affiliation Airbus DS, Airbus-Allee 1, Bremen, Germany

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• Harald Nuesse,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany

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• Ralf Moeller,

  Affiliation German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Radiation Biology Department, Research Group Astrobiology, Linder Hoehe, Cologne (Köln), Germany

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• Oliver Ullrich

  * E-mail: cora.thiel@uzh.ch (CT); oliver.ullrich@uzh.ch (OU)

  Affiliations Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Machine Design, Engineering Design and Product Development, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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