Nucleic Acid Extraction and Sequencing from Low-Biomass Synthetic Mars Analog Soils for In Situ Life Detection

Angel Mojarro,Julie Hachey,Ryan Bailey,Mark A. Brown,Robert Doebler,Gary Ruvkun,Maria T. Zuber,Christopher E. Carr

Nucleic Acid Extraction and Sequencing from Low-Biomass Synthetic Mars Analog Soils for In Situ Life Detection

2019

Angel Mojarro
Julie Hachey
Ryan Bailey
Mark A. Brown
Robert Doebler
Gary Ruvkun
Maria T. Zuber
Christopher E. Carr

Abstract Recent studies regarding the origins of life and Mars-Earth meteorite transfer simulations suggest that biological informational polymers, such as nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), have the pot...

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Mars Exploration Program
Astrobiology
Soil water
Biomass
Nucleic acid
In situ
Chemistry
DNA
Biochemistry
RNA
Meteorite
Abiogenesis

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