A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

In addition to the five nitrogenous bases—adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil—required for building DNA and RNA, ...

Researchers have uncovered a way to manipulate DNA at the atomic level using electric field gradients to control nitrogen ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Importantly they also discovered all five nitrogenous bases — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil — that are ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.