NASA astronaut Christina Koch works on the Genes in Space-6 investigation (IMAGE)

NASA/Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Christina Koch works on the Genes in Space-6 investigation

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch works on the Genes in Space-6 investigation, which developed a system to generate and repair double-strand DNA breaks in a yeast and sequence the DNA to determine whether the repair restored its original order or made errors.

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