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Asteroid Bennu samples carry mysterious space gum, sugars, and a ton of stardust

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...

New Discovery Exposes the Hidden Weak Spot Cancer Uses to Survive DNA Damage

Scripps Research scientists have discovered how some tumors endure DNA damage, revealing a potential new way to target them. The DNA inside our cells is constantly exposed to damage, and one of the ...
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Scientists capture most detailed look inside DNA droplets

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

Building Blocks of Life Found on Near-Earth Asteroid Could Reveal New Clues About Life in the Universe

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Asteroid Bennu racing toward Earth teeming with 'building blocks of life'

A popular science TikToker explained discoveries on the asteroid Bennu after NASA brought samples back to Earth from 39 ...

Asteroid hurtling toward Earth found to be teeming with building blocks of life: researchers

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...
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NASA Finds the Building Blocks of DNA in Samples From Distant Asteroid, But Also… Gum

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Wave Life Sciences: Being Realistic, There Is Still So Much To Prove

Discover why Wave Life Sciences Ltd. is a high-risk, high-reward biotech with unique RNA therapies for AATD, obesity, and ...
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Scientists say asteroid Bennu holds all key elements for life

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...
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Asteroid Bennu Was Missing Just One Ingredient Needed To Kickstart Life – We Just Found It

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...
eLife

Stranded short nascent strand sequencing reveals the topology of DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei

The universal features that define genomic regions acting as replication origins remain unclear. In this study, we mapped a set of origins in Trypanosoma brucei using stranded short nascent strand ...

NASA's asteroid sample just revealed new clues to life's origins

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...