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Dr. Emmett Chappelle developed a test to find living microbes on other planets, and while it hasn’t yet been used to find life amongst the stars, we’ve found many applications for it here on Earth
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Sources:
https://web.whoi.edu/big/black-history-month-series-2020-emmett-Chapelle/
https://www.invent.org/blog/inventors/emmett-chappelle-bioluminescent
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/25/archives/fireflies-light-gains-new-uses-in-medical-and-technical-research.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150724-fireflies-glow-bugs-summer-nation-science
https://www.nature.com/articles/223267a0
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.5b03820
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Emmett_W._Chappelle.jpg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_High_School_(Phoenix,_Arizona)#/media/File:P-Phoenix_Union_Colored_High_School-1926.jpg
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/firefly-gm1208311396-349199561
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/viking-1-2/
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