UMN Professors Susan Wolf, JD, Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, and John Bischof, PhD, Director of the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio), a Consortium Member Center, were interviewed for a KARE 11 News story on recent research into a future lunar biorepository. The story, which aired November 26, focused on a proposed facility that could safeguard Earth’s fauna through storage at extreme low temperatures on the Moon. The study, published in the journal Bioscience, was led by Mary Hagedorn, PhD, of the Smithsonian. The publication outlines an approach for governance of the facility and the types of biological material to be stored, offering the design for a biorepository in case of environmental disaster on Earth. Prof. Wolf, who leads the Ethics & Public Policy component of ATP-Bio, notes in the story that a lunar biorepository could serve as an important “insurance policy.” Read more here.