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  2. Seeking Signs of Life: A Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Exobiology Program


    Image Credit: Jenny Mottar, NASA

    FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT – Please Note Schedule Time Change


    WEBCAST WILL BE AVAILABLE AT http://www.livestream.com/astrobiology50th/

    Seeking Signs of Life: A Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of Exobiology and Astrobiology at NASA

    Thursday October 14, 2010
    8 am-­5 pm
    Lockheed Global Vision Center
    Arlington, VA 22202

    Sponsored by the NASA Astrobiology Program
    Hosted by Lockheed Martin

    This event is free and open to the public, RSVP (required) by noon EDT Oct. 13 to: exosymposium@gmail.com
    A live Webcast will be available at: http://www.livestream.com/astrobiology50th
    For more information, contact: libillin@gwu.edu

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  3. Seeking Signs of Life: A Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Exobiology Program


    Image Credit: Jenny Mottar, NASA

    FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT – Please Note Schedule Time Change


    WEBCAST WILL BE AVAILABLE AT http://www.livestream.com/astrobiology50th/

    Seeking Signs of Life: A Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of Exobiology and Astrobiology at NASA

    Thursday October 14, 2010
    8 am-­5 pm
    Lockheed Global Vision Center
    Arlington, VA 22202

    Sponsored by the NASA Astrobiology Program
    Hosted by Lockheed Martin

    This event is free and open to the public, RSVP (required) by noon EDT Oct. 13 to: exosymposium@gmail.com
    A live Webcast will be available at: http://www.livestream.com/astrobiology50th
    For more information, contact: libillin@gwu.edu

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  4. NASA-Supported Researcher Shares in Nobel Prize


    Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is among a group of three researchers who have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Szostak, who shares this year’s prestigious scientific award with Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is also a principal investigator with NASA’s Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program and a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. The award was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on...

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  5. Machine Evolution


    Many scientists believe that life started out as nothing more than strands of proto-genetic material known as RNA. A new device automates studies of RNA evolution and could lend insights into the origin of life on Earth.

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    Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]

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