Genomics and Cell Biology: November 2015

NASA-funded researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are tapping information found in the cells of all life on Earth, and using it to trace life's evolution.

Tardigrades, nearly microscopic animals that can survive the harshest of environments, including outer space, hold the record for the animal that has the most foreign DNA

Life is quirky. Although the molecules that make up all living things obey physical and chemical laws, they do so with a puzzling twist.