"The Mars' Strain" --Searching for Martian DNA

"The Mars' Strain" --Searching for Martian DNA: "MIT's Technology Review reports that two renowned entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in an effort to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. In a first-ever search for for the first extraterrestrial genome, Human genome-pioneer J. Craig Venter and Jonathan Rothberg, founder of Ion Torrent, a DNA sequencing company have announced seperately that they are developing machines capable of sequencing and beaming back DNA data from Mars."