News Summary

• The CEO of Pioneer Labs, a biotech startup developing Mars-adapted microbes, is on a quest to make alien worlds nice places to live.
• The idea is that you can go to Mars, and you can feed it dirt, water and air, and use it to build bioplastic houses for astronauts.
• "It’s the very first step toward this really inspiring vision of terraforming Mars and making it a habitable, beautiful place," Erika DeBenedictis says.