Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
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Life’s ingredients discovered in samples Nasa probe returned from an asteroid
Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome
In 2016, progress was made in data storage development as scientists at the University of Southampton successfully developed a 5D memory crystal capable of storing up to 360 terabytes (TB) of data, ...
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A computational chemistry-based approach to optimizing PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors
The residues are all within 4.5 Å of the ligand and are mostly the amino acids that make up the active ... results of the molecule 58 as PD-L1 inhibitor. The carbon atoms of molecule 58 and residues ...
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Oxidative stress: its role in air pollution and adverse health effects
Many of the individual pollutants that make up this ambient mix are free radicals (for example, nitrogen dioxide ... established that lung lining fluid contains a similar range of low molecular weight ...
A new chemical tool to create efficient carbon-nitrogen bonds, lowering the cost of tomorrow's medicine
University of Missouri researchers and collaborators have developed a new chemical tool that could help lower the cost of ...