{"id":156636,"date":"2023-01-30T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/all-of-the-bases-in-dna-and-rna-have-now-been-found-in-meteorites"},"modified":"2023-01-30T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:22:21","slug":"all-of-the-bases-in-dna-and-rna-have-now-been-found-in-meteorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/all-of-the-bases-in-dna-and-rna-have-now-been-found-in-meteorites","title":{"rendered":"All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-of-the-bases-in-dna-and-rna-have-now-been-found-in-meteorites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have detected bits of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/meteorites-contain-chemicals-linked-life\">adenine, guanine<\/a> and other organic compounds in meteorites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/50-years-ago-scientists-first-glimpse-amino-acids-outer-space\">since the 1960s<\/a> (<em>SN: 8\/10\/11<\/em>, <em>SN: 12\/4\/20<\/em>). Researchers have also seen hints of uracil, but cytosine and thymine remained elusive, until now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve completed the set of all the bases found in DNA and RNA and life on Earth, and they\u2019re present in meteorites,\u201d says astrochemist Daniel Glavin of NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, geochemist Yasuhiro Oba of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and colleagues came up with a technique to gently extract and separate different chemical compounds in liquified meteorite dust and then analyze them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have detected bits of adenine, guanine and other organic compounds in meteorites since the 1960s (SN: 8\/10\/11, SN: 12\/4\/20). Researchers have also seen hints of uracil, but cytosine and thymine remained elusive, until now. \u201cWe\u2019ve completed the set of all the bases found in DNA and RNA and life on Earth, and they\u2019re present [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}