The OpenHelix Blog

As Mary pointed out last week, we had an alien DNA upgrade about 1,000 years which lead to the blast furnace, among other necessary modern accoutrements, according to recent research reported in the Weekly World News (still no original paper found in PubMed). Well, apparently current genomics research has shown  that those meddlesome  aliens are still [...]

Well, I’ve been behind on some of my reading.  That arsenic DNA stuff from NASA really got me thinking that my astrobiology was not up to snuff. So I decided to put some deliberate effort into catching up on that. Good thing. I found a report that I had totally missed before. I’m not sure [...]