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2 0 0 8	MAR-MAY: 3rd conference: Astrobiology Society of Britain | Arthur C. Clarke... | Richard Dawkins endorses panspermia | Three YouTube videos about panspermia | Placental genes have ancient origins | Earth's first animal... | The 5th Astrobiology Science Conference | Wickramasinghe interview | The origin of eukaryotic RNA polymerases? | An amino-acid-like molecule.... | Microbial life inside Enceladus? | Bdelloid rotifers | Methane and water, but no carbon monoxide.... | Could an ocean on Titan contain life? | Viruses serve as gene banks for ecosystems?! | Meteorites with the highest observed concentrations of amino acids.... | Instead of sweeping uncertainty under the rug.... | The ...cosmic biosphere | A carbonaceous meteorite collected in Antarctica.... Links to the above-listed NEW articles change when they age into the Archives, listed below. JAN-FEB: The hypothesis... is plausible | An intuitively unlikely evolutionary event has... occurred at least twice.... | All scientific theories are subject to revision | More metazoan genes came before metazoa | Red Rain ...has historical precedents | SPIE's 11th Astrobiology Conference | Did meteors cause ...Biodiversification Event? | Did life begin on a radioactive beach? | Extrasolar planets | ...Only rarely have phylogenetic studies of morphology and DNA data agreed.... | A sudden diversification of life....
2 0 0 7	OCT-DEC: Do thawing glaciers speed up evolution? | Ancestor ...molecularly complex | Shuttle experiment to study effects of space on bacterial spores | Eukaryotic phylogeny better represented by a network | Use a credit card to purchase books | Lateral gene transfer – NSF | Darwin might be surprised | Surprises come from... fruitfly genomes | Ancient retroviruses spurred evolution of gene regulatory networks... | We could have alien origins | You can think of the genome as a revolving door | The Desaguadero Meteorite | New genetic functions arise when selection is imposed on a minor side function... | Cosmology ...isn't a science JUL-SEP: The genomes of 17 species of fungi | A meteorite caused illness? | Lateral gene transfer... between bacteria and multicellular organisms.... | Varying environments can speed up evolution | When I repeated the Viking experiments... | The genome of the sea anemone... | The great obstacle... | Comets are much more likely than Earth... | The Limits of Organic Life... | Evolution is recycling | New web host MAY-JUN: Yawning gaps.... | The Edge of Evolution by Michael Behe | Liquid water on the surface of Mars?! | ...with a surprising assist from genetic elements usually derided as mere junk. | Superficially unrelated articles in Nature | A Simpler Origin for Life | The genetic and developmental toolkit...was around... | ...Ionizing radiation significantly enhances the growth of fungi.... | ...The focus has shifted | E.O. Wilson thinks panspermia is likely | ...Durability could enable haloarchaea to survive the period of deep-space travel.... JAN-APR: How did life on Earth originate? | I felt sick to my stomach | ...The movement of plant genes... involves a complex web.... | All retroviruses are very old | More about gene transfer | ...a revision of such concepts as ...evolution itself. | ...methane lakes on Titan | ...The bacteria ...could exist on other planets | ...It is vital that there be ...intermediaries | Viking experiments are reinterpreted
2 0 0 6	NOV-DEC: Many genes... have been in the tree of life... | We humans are embedded in a microbial world | Water still flows on Mars?! | Human genes contain duplicated sequences | Evolutionary Dynamics, by Nowak | Zolensky quote | Acquisition of an advantageous gene? | Stanford book review | Dawkins quote | Chandra on BBC | Sea urchin has unnecessary genes | The Making of the Fittest | Harvard's Origins of Life program JUL-OCT: Did Viking find life on Mars? | Bacteria deep underground subsist on radioactivity | 'Jumping genes' are now regarded as major players | Can plants overwrite unhealthy genes? | Deinococcus | What rhodopsin is doing.... | Conference on Cosmic Dust and Panspermia | A gene left behind... | The Evolution Prize | ...They hold a reserve of genetic information | Wickramasinghe quote | Life may have arrived from outer space... | A life-bearing planet could seed a galaxy | Chandra Wickramasinghe discusses the red rain | The case for life on Earth 3.8 billion years ago | Segmental duplications MAY-JUN: Conference on Cosmic Dust and Panspermia | Viruses' diversity and promiscuity | Bats and horses | Novel genes derived from noncoding DNA | Early life... was already diverse | Galaxies theoretically young look old | Blowflies were preadapted | Another Intelligent Design Theory | Robert Shapiro on the RNA World | NASA's Astrobiology program | ...Many more genes in the viral world | The structure of a bacterial enzyme that inserts mobile gene cassettes | Organic matter in meteorites is extraterrestrial and ancient | New primate gene | Genes undergo rapid mutation and selection immediately after transfer | Once one planet comes down with life.... MAR-APR: Darwinian fundamentalism | Pristine meteorite samples | The Evolution Prize | Astrobiology broadens exobiology | Microbes produced methane on Earth 3.5 billion years ago | Irreducible complexity solved! | ...Eukaryotic Transposable Elements | Viruses And The Evolution Of Life | Blumberg quote | Earthly bacteria | Paradigm shift for evolution among prokaryotes | Fire and ice | Wet Encedalus | Endogenous proviruses JAN-FEB: Can Viruses Make Us Human? | Retroposed genes have contributed to human evolution | Why has there has been so little change? | Splicesomal introns | Ohio biology students | Researchers evolve a complex genetic trait? | Origin-of-life theory comes up short | AbSciCon 2006 | UK Astrobiology Conference | Evidence for life on Mars from Nakhla | A cell requires 430 genes | Gerda Horneck | A toxin in spiders and bacteria | More survivors of Columbia | ...Replicable and predictable | Evan Eichler | Stardust landed safely | A dust storm couldn't have caused the red rain
2 0 0 5	OCT-DEC: "Evolution in Action" | A dust storm caused the red rain? | CA website reviewed | Building blocks of life orbiting a Sun-like star | US Court: ID not science | Life as We Do Not Know It | Simple animals have complex genes | Microbes can hunker down | Transformation and conjugation | Marine worm has complex genes | Gene transfer, not duplication | Fred Hoyle remembered | Plant virus changes vectors; Photosynthesis genes | Lichens survive in space | The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle | Mars methane not from volcanoes | Hyperion's craters | The origin of novelty | Panspermia reconsidered | Wilma | Michael Behe testified | Dione | Britten quote | Tethys photographed by Cassini | Organic chemicals common in space | More about Deep Impact JUL-SEP: The chimp genome | Common bacteria share an infinite gene pool?! | Protein families from ancient templates | Prokaryote genomes reveal transfer | New book about the origin of life | Website navigation for HGT | Frost et al. quote | Wolpert quote | Deep frozen water in Ceres | Organics inside comet Tempel 1 | Schools should teach creationism? | More than 80 new exons... | Fred Hoyle remembered | Parallel evolution in fruitflies | Mirror life? | President Bush | Gene transfer in fungi | Cosmic organics | Rocco Mancinelli | Frozen water and methane on Mars | World Summit on Evolution | A new microbial tree of life APR-JUN: "Gene duplication..." | Degrees in astrobiology at Arizona | Books about Hoyle | Mars' methane not from life? | NASA and LITU | 3rd Alternative | The key to early eye evolution? | Conference at McMaster University | Jumping genes may be a headache... | Sagan quote | Report on NAI Conference | Lithopanspermia... | The 5th European Workshop on Astrobiology | Darwin-at-Home | Organics in Titan's high atmosphere | Book by Hubert Yockey | Jeffrey Bada is optimistic | Grinspoon re: Titan | Methane from life on Mars? | Astrobiology in Scotland | Brown stain in Genesis... | Chandra Wickramasinghe's scientific autobiography JAN-MAR: Micro-organisms could be transported | Very old life questioned | Plants can overwrite unhealthy genes | Fresh-looking snow on Mars | Life’s Solution | Astrobiology IX | A frozen ocean on Mars today? | Woese quote | Pre-existing genetic programs...? | Prokaryote to eukaryote gene transfer | Bacteria frozen for 30,000 years | Only 13% of adults | Duplication makes a new primate gene | Formaldehyde on Mars | Fitness Landscapes | Ernst Mayr died | Complex early genes | Moss grew in a spiral | Huygens landed on Titan | Venter endorses panspermia | Genes from retroviruses | Gaia's History | Gene exchange among archaebacteria
2 0 0 4	NOV-DEC: Methane on Mars | Plastid Portability | Genes for religion? | A history of astrobiology | Microbes survived... | Panspermia and life on Mars | Evolution vs creationism on CNN | Wordcount | A new fruitfly gene | Methane on Mars | Human genes composed mainly of mobile elements | Apollo 12 | Evidence that 1,183 human genes were "born" | Vertebrate photoreceptor cells in a primitive invertebrate | Plant-to-plant gene transfer | Other theories of evolution?! | Ekers quote | The birth of a new gene | Was Darwin Wrong? | NASA Astrobiology Institute members' meeting JUL-OCT: Knoll quote | Pack-MULE transposable elements... | A diatom genome has been sequenced | Cassini flew by Titan | Liquid water on comets? | A discussion of the Intelligent Design movement | Fungi from deep sea sediments revive | Eukaryote-to-eukaryote lateral gene transfer | Retroelements that confer a selective advantage | Chandra Wickramasinghe comments on sugar in space | Nova explains the origin of life | An article promoting Intelligent Design | Water vapor and methane... in Mars' lower atmosphere | Halobacteria repair DNA | The ring of life! | Gene transfer among eukaryotes | Changing spots on Mars | Microfossils in a meteorite | More about photosynthesis by gene transfer | 100 years old, Ernst Mayr... | Big bang predictions are not upheld APR-JUN: Klyce quote | ...Stardust sees organic matter at comet Wild 2 | Knockout mice leave ultraconserved regions unexplained | More animal genes came from bacteria | Darwinism, Design, and Public Education | Organics in planet-forming discs | Microbes have stolen some of our genes! | Ultraconserved elements | Ehrlich quote | Viruses old as life? | Thanks, SETI League | Planetary protection officer | Mars may have life today | Darlington quote | The rat genome | "Can we ever hope...?" | Methane on Mars JAN-MAR: Isotope tests inconclusive | Wolfram quote | Stratospheric bacteria to be analyzed | Meridiani Planum was wet | Rosetta launched | Nature notices panspermia | Evolution caught in the act? | Chirality from space? | Big bang revised again? | Nonliving to living? | Astrobiology free! | Small comet caused global chill? | 8th International Conference of Bioastronomy | Organelles transfer genes | The case for past life on Mars | "Opportunity" returns pictures | "Spirit" malfunction | Extraterrestrial genes cause extinction? | Microevolutionary processes sufficient? | Complex organics in interstellar dust confirmed | Isotope analysis of stratospheric bacteria is postponed | Rover "Spirit" bounced safely onto Mars | Stardust sailed safely by comet Wild 2
2 0 0 3	OCT-DEC: Stress can increase horizontal gene transfer | Infrared telescope sees hydrocarbons | Coral contains many sequences resembling vertebrate genes | 3rd Astrobiology Conference | CNGs more numerous, better conserved than genes | Microorganisms may have spread throughout the galaxy | Water flowed on Mars for long times | Europe's Mars sample return mission | Napier quote | More changing spots on Mars | Mudflows on Mars | Amino acids in meteorites | The red rain of Kerala | Origin of the word "panspermia" | NAI Virus Focus Group | Genetic "fault zones" | As the burgeoning genome databases are analysed | Ward quote | NASA will explore comets for clues about the origin of life AUG-SEP: LLNL will measure isotope ratios in bacteria from the high atmosphere | A river in Spain may model Mars' environment | Freezing cold Mars could have supported life | Galileo will crash into Jupiter | Theological implications of life elsewhere | Oceans on Venus for two billion years? | Harold quote | Earth's water from comets? | Panspermia possible | Could alien pathogens wreak havoc? | Goldman quote | How wet was Mars? | Photosynthesis genes in a virus | Gene transfer, wholesale? | Just balls of protein? MAY-JUL: SETI looks at panspermia | More genes seem to precede the need for themselves | Gene transfer in evolution | NASA launches second Mars Rover | Introns | Commentary on Viking | Internet chat | Horizontal gene transfer | Live online chat | Mars Express on the way | Mud flows on Mars? | Computer model evolves complex functions? | More about Huygens | Revisiting the Miller Experiment MAR-APR: SARS from space? | Point mutations vs rearrangements | WSJ looks at cosmology | Gould's account of macroevolution | Titan's methane biological? | Mars' changing spots biological? | More: fresh streaks on Mars | Here Be Dragons | Nanobacteria | Wales TV features Chandra | Water flowing on Mars now? | More on TEs | New target for Rosetta | What Evolution Is JAN-FEB: TEs contribute to human evolution | Humanoid gene arose abruptly? | Amino acids in Murchison | Small gullies on Mars | Closed-system biological experiment | UK Astrobiology Forum | Discussion of panspermia | Genes from plants | NASA Astrobiology Institute | Evolving Inventions | Wingless insects re-evolved wings | Rosetta Update | Duplicated genes serve backup functions | Horizontal gene transfer | Rosetta cancelled | How bacterium resists radiation | Microbes in ancient ocean crust | Microorganisms in Europa's ice?
2 0 0 2	OCT-DEC: No evolutionary progress in a closed system! | Life's Origin | Radioactivity and water support bacteria | Germs in high atmosphere | The Economist on bioinformatics | Meteorite with organic globules | Mars Updates | More on chimps - humans - viruses | Bacteria could survive | Photosynthesis by gene transfer | Universe full of microbes | CIDA not miscalibrated | Bacteria survive impacts | Cyanobacteria not so old? | Iris Fry | Biastronomy 2002 | Europan lava lamp? | Paul Davies | Thick / thin ice on Europa | Life on distant moons reconsidered JUL-SEP: Ice falls from atmosphere | Bacteria in atmosphere of Venus? | Bacteria evolved on Mars? | Water on extrasolar planets? | Progress Redefined | Conference anticipates Stardust | Titan a puzzle | Cosmic smog | CONTOUR probably doomed | Survival by gene sharing | CONTOUR lost? | NASA reinforces case for biological magnetites | Chimps to humans by viruses? | Mars sample return? | RNA World: the latest | Glycine in space | Microbe fossil search on Moon? | Mouse vs Human | Acquiring Genomes APR-JUN: New journals | Lots of water on Mars! | New amino acid | Astronomy Now: Life from space? | Magnetites nonbiological? | Lateral DNA Transfer | Bet on sustainable evolutionary progress? | HERVs = c. 8% of human genome | Universe always existed? | Hoyle Conference JAN-MAR: Microbes in high atmosphere | Plant gene in a worm | Magnetites in ALH84001 | LPSC in Houston | Tardigrades | Correction | Recent Mars floods | Microbes survive pressure | Macroevolution demonstration | Europan tides and life | 33rd LPSC | Changing dark spots on Mars | Methanogenic archaea | Bacteria survive in space
2 0 0 1	SEP-DEC: Research funding in 2002 | Gene for multcellularity in protist | Sugar in meteorites | Astrobiology conference | Was Mars all wet? | Bacteria color Europa? | Research at Oklahoma | Deadalus | 70,000 human genes? | Funds available | Genome research | Mars sample return | Deep Space 1 | NASA Conference | Plankton rain supplies genes | Mars' dark spots JUL-AUG: ESA seeks water on Mars | Tagish Lake a D asteroid? | Farmer testifies | Bioastronomy 2002 | Fred Hoyle dies | Pseudo-panspermia | Fungi too old | San Diego | Viking | NATO Institute | Boiling comets | The moon | Nanobes | SETI | CONSERT MAY-JUN: Adaptive mutation? | Life Everywhere | Europa | Mars meteorite water | Transpermia | DNA of revived bacteria | Astrobiology IV | Mars quarantine | European workshop | Eukaryote-to-prokaryote evolution | Macquarie Workshop | LINEAR | European Workshop | Contamination | Wickramasinghe | Italians culture bacteria | Museum of Natural History MAR-APR: Mars Odyssey | Tagish Lake | Carbon dioxide gullies? | Giant comet | British mission | Comet ice? | Meteors could carry life? | Intronless paralogs | Nature features astrobiology | Hale-Bopp still active | 32nd LPSC | Simulated meteorite impact | Influenza and sunspots JAN-FEB: Mars bacteria | Organics in comets | Mass extinction 250 mya | Distant dust | LGT in archaea | Human genome | Viking biology experiments | Where to land | Jupiter-like planets | NASA scientists find clues? | Terraforming Mars? | Meteorites in Antarctica | Liquid water 4.4 bya
2 0 0 0	NOV-DEC: Ganymede ocean | Mutation doubles lifespan | Magnetotactic bacteria | Liquid water on Mars? | Indian balloon | Lake beds on Mars? | Lunar meteorites | Panspermia | Progress in Evolution? | TNA World | ESA on Mars | Organics in Leonids | Gene Duplication | Mars bacteria in salt crystals? | Cardiff Astrobiology Center | Methane without oil SEP-OCT: Panspermia reconsidered | NASA's Mars program | Microorganisms from the Moon | Kuiper-belt objects | NASA's Chris McKay | 250 Million-year-old bacteria revived | Genetic regions transferred | Tagish Lake meteorite | Isolated giant planets | NASA's Mars plan | Prions | Organic Pigments on Mars? | Stardust results | Underground ice on Mars? | Stardust | by Gribbin | OSETI features panspermia | ESA's Beagle 2 | NASA's planetary protection JUL-AUG: Tagish Lake meteorite | New website | Europa ocean | Bacteria in clouds | James Lovelock | Water on Mars | Meteoritical Society | Water vapor in space | Microscope aboard Mars Express | Twin rovers to Mars | Indestructable germs | Germs survive rocket ride | Mars announcememt | Introns' homing capability | Comet formation | Microtubules in space | ESA's detects CH3 | Deep Space 1 | New by Hoyle and Wickramasinghe | Bacteria at South Pole | Creationism vs Darwinism | Gas made gullies? | Europa missions MAY-JUN: Water on Mars | Gullies and brackish water on Mars | Sugar in space | NYT article | Salt in Zag | Argon in Hale-Bopp | Mayr interview | Tagish Lake Meteorite | Beagle 2 | Viral enzyme integrates plasmids into human DNA | Online review of theories | Cosmology by Hoyle et al. | Rhythms in Viking data | Bacterial HGT | Nanobacteria conference | Reverse panspermia? MAR-APR: Stardust captures organic compounds | Low-Cost Planetary Missions | Nanobacteria | Lederberg's microbial biosphere | Conference Reports | Contamination | DNA Virus Contribution to Host Evolution | NASA's Astrobiology Conference | Carolina Bays | Mars mission failures | Extraterrestrial gases in a sediment layer | Life on Europa | Mars sample return postponed | JAN's Yukon meteorite | Soybean experiments in space | Increase in cratering rate | Organics traces overlooked? | Tatahouine microfossils biological | Carbonaceous asteroid observed | Richfield essay | NASA may crash Galileo | Zhmur says fossils not contaminants JAN-FEB: Viral gene serves human function | Stardust | HGT targets germ cells | Contamination! | Murchison microfossils | Stardust collects dust | Life above Vostok | CONTOUR | NEAR orbits Eros | Wickramasinghe and DiGregorio | New Mars meteorites | Russia to Mars in 2005 | Fossils in meteorites | Ecosystem on Europa? | Yukon meteor blast | HGT in Scientific American | Influenza and sunspots? | Adenine made in interstellar clouds? | Synthesis of organic molecules in space | Meteorite-seeking robot | Tower of Babel | Hardy bacteria | Europa's ocean | Mars meteorite's magnetites | NASA will host conference | Charon's spectrum
1 9 9 9	DEC: Manmade meteorites | Astrobiology forum | Intelligent Design | Lord Kelvin | Europa | Deinococcus radiodurans | Microbes living in ancient ice | Minimal life | Mars ocean | Transgenes in germ-line | Germs in Mars samples? | Silence from Mars Polar Lander | Snowball Earth OCT-NOV: Tunguska explosion by comet? | GECCO-2000 | NASA's CCA | Genetic engineers use viruses | Ancestors Martian? | Human Genome | Dark Life | Habitable moons | Horizontal Gene Transfer | Fish fossils in Lower Cambrian | Does Microevolution Explain Macroevolution? | Comets' black nuclei | Life Beyond Earth | Internet resource | Blood protein from digestive enzyme | The Fate of Life | Florida Today | Retroviruses appear ancient | No water after Moon crash | Microbes survive in space AUG-SEP: Sulfuric acid on Europa | Nanorover to explore asteroid | Experimental evolution | Mars Orbiter presumed lost | Evolutionary Progress? | Europa's Ocean | Liquid water in another meteorite | Viruses deep under ice | Liquid water in meteorite | DNA biocrystallization | The Deep Hot Biosphere by Gold | Mathematics of Evolution by Hoyle | Stardust Update | Computer model of evolution | Kansas drops evolution JUN-JUL: Seeding the Universe | Conference postponed | Fossilized bacteria | Science features evolution | Deep Impact | Planets in interstellar space? | Mars Express | How comets and meteors seeded life on Earth | Example of microevolution APR-MAY: Stardust | Baruch Blumberg | Mars map | Siberia | Bacteria acquire toxicity from viruses | Mars cyclone confirms water | Blumberg to lead NAI | Dan Goldin | Planetary Dreams | LaMarck's Signature | Tectonic plates on Mars | Popper's criterion | SOLIS | Cytosine unlikely | Astrobiology II | Computer model of a cell | Virus as a shuttle vector JAN-MAR: Other Mars meteorites | LINE-1s | Ad Astra | Human genome 1% HERVs | Problem not missing fossils | NASA finds clues? | It Came from Outer Space | New evidence for old life | NASA launches Stardust | Balloon experiment | Molecular clocks | Bioastronomy Conference | Astrobiology Roadmap | Mission to Mars
1 9 9 8	NOV-DEC: PAHs in diffuse interstellar bands | Caenorhabditis elegans genome | Intron installed over 1,000 times | Consensus for Mars microbes weakening | Astrobiology Institute | Integration mechanism inserts genes JUL-OCT: Genes too old | Chlamidia... has 35 eukaryotic genes | Callisto has underground ocean? | Hale-Bopp active | Fossilized bacterium in Orgueil | Immune system by transposon insertion | NYAS conference on HGT | Woese says HGT important | David McKay defends ALH84001 evidence APR-JUN: Life deep in ice | Case for small comets | Ponding on Mars? | Hematite deposits on Mars | Genes older than fossils | Gene uptake system | Tatahouine meteorite | Mars rock formation by microbes? | Water vapour on Titan | Astrobiology Institute JAN-MAR: Horizontal gene transfer | Red and gray K-b objects | 29th LPSC | Life in ancient ice | Europa images | Gaia society | Desert varnish on Mars | Safe handling of Mars samples | France may help sample Mars
9 7	SEP-DEC: Horizontal gene transfer | NASA's Galileo spacecraft | 1998 Astrobiology conference | Scepticism about tiny comets | Nanofossils in ALH84001 | Integration of non retroviral RNA virus into eukaryotic DNA | Mars may still support life | NASA approves comet sample return | Guth says universe(s) eternal | Amino acids in Murchison | Mars: The Living Planet | Amino acids in Murchison not contaminants

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