Hear from the First Astronaut to Sequence DNA in Space
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Channel: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum · 2017 · Education
Astronaut Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She eventually sequenced over 2 billion base pairs of DNA during a series of experiments to analyze sequencing in microgravity. Hear more about her work in this episode of "What's New in Aerospace?" See More: airandspace.si.edu/live
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