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The Search for Friends Far, Far Away

Apr 30, 2007

As many a discredited scientist can attest, it can be a real challenge to focus your experiments on the search for extraterrestrial life and still be taken seriously by the scientific community.

Fortunately for Gary Ruvkun, that seems to be a challenge he's overcome. His longtime efforts in this area have the support of people like Nobel winner Wally Gilbert, as this article from the Boston Globe points out. The story profiles Ruvkun's latest work to develop a sensor that would look for DNA on Mars.

 

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