'Astrobiodefense:' Thinktank calls for defending Earth from space bugs 

 The quest to bring samples back to Earth from Mars has been met with controversy in some quarters as the threat that ecologically-hungry Martian microbes might pose to our biosphere continues to be a topic of concern. 

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