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?"

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April 27, 2017

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