From Washington, D.C., at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
About a decade ago, a scientific debate erupted over whether there were signs of life on a piece of rock that had been blasted from Mars and traveled to Earth. Today, few researchers believe the infamous rock ever bore microbes, but some are still testing whether a Mars-to-Earth transport of life is possible.
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