Radiation Resistance of Biological Reagents for In Situ Life Detection

Life on Mars, if it exists, may share a common ancestry with life on Earth derived from meteoritic transfer of microbes between the planets. One means to test this hypothesis is to isolate, detect, and sequence nucleic acids in situ on Mars, then search for similarities to known common features of l...

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Main Authors: Carr, Christopher E. (Contributor), Rowedder, Holli (Author), Vafadari, Cyrus (Contributor), Lui, Clarissa S. (Contributor), Cascio, Ethan (Author), Zuber, Maria T. (Contributor), Ruvkun, Gary (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert, 2013-03-06T17:09:29Z.
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