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Resurrected organisms reveal life’s bare essentials

17 May 2017

Reanimating cells and animals that are centuries or millennia old can offer surprising insights into what it takes to be alive

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Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

16 May 2017

Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel between worlds

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