Life in the Lab: Heat death, ctd.

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The "dead sample" (really, uncomfortably alive sample) tally is up to 112, plus 8 vials of meteorite residue.

The project that made them was only three or four years old, but had generated three papers so far. It was on the synthesis of sugars in conditions approximating those in the early solar system, which explains why so many of them were vulnerable to the mold.