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- Improve life here, Extend life to there, and Find life beyond, as only NASA can.
- The development of devices that can detect single molecules of nucleic acids, decode DNA sequence variations in the genome of any organism, and apply functional genomic assays to determine molecular information processing functions in model organisms, such as yeast
 Saccharomyces cerevisiae , fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster , nematode Caenorhabditis elegans , plant Arabidopsis thaliana , mouse Mus musculus , and in human cells.
- Support NASA research objectives of the Center for Nanotechnology , Fundamental Space Biology Program , and Astrobiology Institute with state-of-the-art genomic technology and computational bio-informatics.
- Develop partnerships with universities to advance bio-technology education.
- Develop partnerships with business enterprise to commercialize genomic and computational bio-informatics technology.
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