Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
WASHINGTON - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of ...
Bioengineering advance allows scientists to accurately predict and engineer protein metalation
Researchers at Durham University have achieved a major advancement in understanding how proteins bind metals inside cells, a process crucial to life. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...
NASA's Bennu samples contain life's building blocks, including amino acids and DNA/RNA nucleobases
Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...