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3 hours agoSamples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks
Ryugu contains all necessary ingredients for DNA and RNA, supporting theories that asteroids may have brought life to Earth.
The new work was less notable for showing that we had found these bases in Ryugu than for solving a previous mystery: earlier studies had failed to detect them there, despite their presence in many other asteroid samples.