Work with other organisms should yield some insight into the likely outcome.
A few of them are planktonic or live in association with other organisms.
It is also the largest division of the Earth's surface filled with living organisms.
"Of course these metals combine with biological organisms," he said.
But the question with novel organisms is far more complicated.
"You think someone out there is into collecting blood infected with strange organisms?"
It was as a child that she developed her fascination with science and living organisms.
With no humans or other living organisms aboard to worry about, they made the trip in less than an hour.
At that point they could start making their products with genetically modified organisms and whatever else.
Yet we have the problem of what to do with potentially contaminated organisms.