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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’ expedition began, zero base pairs of DNA had been sequenced in space. Within just a few weeks, she and the Biomolecule Sequencer team had sequenced their one billionth base of DNA aboard the orbiting laboratory. via NASA ift.tt/2cRwlW4
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One Billion Base Pairs Sequenced on the Space Station was taken on September 03, 2016 at 09:15AM