I just recently read an article in New Scientist about a group of scientists who are claiming to have found biological cells (without DNA) in samples from red rain that fell over in 2001. Unfortunately you must be a subscriber to read the article on the New Scientist website (current issue).

Here is an Observer News Story:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world...723913,00.html

And the original research paper:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0601/0601022.pdf

If this has already been posted, I apologize. I tried a search and nothing came up; also I checked the first page of several catagories.

I'm cautious about the story, but it does seem intriguing. They definitely look like cells, and the New Scientist article indicates the samples have been sent to another group for testing.

Any thoughts?

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