Friday, March 16, 2018

Astronaut Scott Kelly's DNA No Longer Matches Identical Twin's

UPDATE. Bad science ... (see reader comment) Astronaut Scott Kelly's DNA No Longer Matches Identical Twin's

"Scott, 54, returned in March 2016 from a year aboard the International Space Station — but 7 percent of his genes had changed. In the two years since, they have not returned to normal, NASA says.

Scott’s 340-day stay was longer than NASA’s typical six-month deployments to space, and while it is known that a person’s genes change away from Earth, they did not expect his genes to stay altered."

Reader comment: Nope, nope, nope. Yet another example of how bad reporting happens in the pursuit of clicks.

1 comment:

  1. Nope, nope, nope. Yet another example of how bad reporting happens in the pursuit of clicks:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/scott-kellys-medical-monitoring-has-spawned-some-horrific-press-coverage/

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