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How are altered DNA and the weakened immune systems some astronauts experience during spaceflight related? The “Genes in Space” competition challenged students and teachers across the country to design an experiment to fly onboard the International Space Station to find out. Anna-Sophia Boguraev’s experiment to see if the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) could study DNA alterations in space, won the challenge and launched to the orbiting laboratory in 2016. While it was determined PCR works in…
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