New alien-life test could help Mars and Europa missions read organic molecules

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...
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New method sharpens the search for alien biology

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...

Scientists propose a new approach for the detection of alien life

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...
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Scientists propose new way to find aliens — and we may already have a spacecraft that can help

Scientists say amino acids produced by life are distributed differently and more diversely than amino acids produced by ...
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Scientists found the “holy grail” gene that could one day help humans regrow limbs

Scientists studying axolotls, zebrafish, and mice have uncovered a shared set of genes that may one day help humans regrow ...
Scientific American

There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one

For more than three decades, Jay Hooper, a virologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in ...
The Scientist

A History of HeLa Cells: How the Immortal Cells Advanced Biomedical Science

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...