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The Search for Chiral Asymmetry as a Potential Biosignature in our Solar System by Glavin, Daniel P, Burton, Aaron S, Elsila, Jamie E, Aponte, José C, Dworkin, Jason P

“…The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in our Solar System is currently guided by our understanding of terrestrial biology and its associated…”
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Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites by Furukawa, Yoshihiro, Chikaraishi, Yoshito, Ohkouchi, Naohiko, Ogawa, Nanako O., Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P., Abe, Chiaki, Nakamura, Tomoki

“…Sugars are essential molecules for all terrestrial biota working in many biological processes. Ribose is particularly essential as a building block of RNA,…”
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Identifying the Wide Diversity of Extraterrestrial Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleobases in Carbonaceous Meteorites by Oba, Yasuhiro, Takano, Yoshinori, Furukawa, Yoshihiro, Koga, Toshiki, Glavin, Daniel P, Dworkin, Jason P, Naraoka, Hiroshi

“…The lack of pyrimidine diversity in meteorites remains a mystery since prebiotic chemical models and laboratory experiments have predicted that these compounds…”
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Cometary glycine detected in samples returned by Stardust by Elsila, Jamie E., Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P.

“…— Our previous analysis of cometary samples returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust spacecraft showed several amines and amino acids, but the origin of these…”
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Ryugu Asteroid Sample Return Provides A Natural Laboratory for Primordial Chemical Evolution by Oba, Yasuhiro, Takano, Yoshinori, Dworkin, Jason P., Naraoka, Hiroshi

“…The samples returned from near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu provide a pristine record of the 4.6 billion years since the birth of the Solar System. The…”
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Nanopore DNA Sequencing and Genome Assembly on the International Space Station by Castro-Wallace, Sarah L., Chiu, Charles Y., John, Kristen K., Stahl, Sarah E., Rubins, Kathleen H., McIntyre, Alexa B. R., Dworkin, Jason P., Lupisella, Mark L., Smith, David J., Botkin, Douglas J., Stephenson, Timothy A., Juul, Sissel, Turner, Daniel J., Izquierdo, Fernando, Federman, Scot, Stryke, Doug, Somasekar, Sneha, Alexander, Noah, Yu, Guixia, Mason, Christopher E., Burton, Aaron S.

“…We evaluated the performance of the MinION DNA sequencer in-flight on the International Space Station (ISS), and benchmarked its performance off-Earth against…”
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Enrichment of the Amino Acid L-Isovaline by Aqueous Alteration on CI and CM Meteorite Parent Bodies by Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P., Szostak, Jack W.

“…The distribution and enantiomeric composition of the 5-carbon (C₅) amino acids found in CI-, CM-, and CR-type carbonaceous meteorites were investigated by…”
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Understanding prebiotic chemistry through the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and nucleobases in meteorites by Burton, Aaron S, Stern, Jennifer C, Elsila, Jamie E, Glavin, Daniel P, Dworkin, Jason P

“…The discoveries of amino acids of extraterrestrial origin in many meteorites over the last 50 years have revolutionized the Astrobiology field. A variety of…”
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Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases by Callahan, Michael P., Smith, Karen E., Cleaves, H. James, Ruzicka, Josef, Stern, Jennifer C., Glavin, Daniel P., House, Christopher H., Dworkin, Jason P.

“…All terrestrial organisms depend on nucleic acids (RNA and DNA), which use pyrimidine and purine nucleobases to encode genetic information. Carbon-rich…”
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Extraterrestrial hexamethylenetetramine in meteorites—a precursor of prebiotic chemistry in the inner solar system by Oba, Yasuhiro, Takano, Yoshinori, Naraoka, Hiroshi, Furukawa, Yoshihiro, Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P., Tachibana, Shogo

“…Despite extensive studies on the formation of organic molecules in various extraterrestrial environments, it still remains under debate when, where, and how…”
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Evidence for perchlorates and the origin of chlorinated hydrocarbons detected by SAM at the Rocknest aeolian deposit in Gale Crater by Glavin, Daniel P., Freissinet, Caroline, Miller, Kristen E., Eigenbrode, Jennifer L., Brunner, Anna E., Buch, Arnaud, Sutter, Brad, Archer Jr, P. Douglas, Atreya, Sushil K., Brinckerhoff, William B., Cabane, Michel, Coll, Patrice, Conrad, Pamela G., Coscia, David, Dworkin, Jason P., Franz, Heather B., Grotzinger, John P., Leshin, Laurie A., Martin, Mildred G., McKay, Christopher, Ming, Douglas W., Navarro-González, Rafael, Pavlov, Alexander, Steele, Andrew, Summons, Roger E., Szopa, Cyril, Teinturier, Samuel, Mahaffy, Paul R.

“…A single scoop of the Rocknest aeolian deposit was sieved (< 150 µm), and four separate sample portions, each with a mass of ~50 mg, were delivered to…”
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Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Oba, Yasuhiro, Koga, Toshiki, Takano, Yoshinori, Ogawa, Nanako O., Ohkouchi, Naohiko, Sasaki, Kazunori, Sato, Hajime, Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P., Naraoka, Hiroshi, Tachibana, Shogo, Yurimoto, Hisayoshi, Nakamura, Tomoki, Noguchi, Takaaki, Okazaki, Ryuji, Yabuta, Hikaru, Sakamoto, Kanako, Yada, Toru, Nishimura, Masahiro, Nakato, Aiko, Miyazaki, Akiko, Yogata, Kasumi, Abe, Masanao, Okada, Tatsuaki, Usui, Tomohiro, Yoshikawa, Makoto, Saiki, Takanao, Tanaka, Satoshi, Terui, Fuyuto, Nakazawa, Satoru, Watanabe, Sei-ichiro, Tsuda, Yuichi

“…The pristine sample from the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft enabled us to analyze the pristine…”
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Primordial synthesis of amines and amino acids in a 1958 Miller H₂S-rich spark discharge experiment by Parker, Eric T., Cleaves, Henderson J., Dworkin, Jason P., Glavin, Daniel P., Callahan, Michael, Aubrey, Andrew, Lazcano, Antonio, Bada, Jeffrey L., Joyce, Gerald F.

“…Archived samples frbm a previously unreported 1958 Stanley Miller electric discharge experiment containing hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) were recently discovered and…”
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The effects of parent body processes on amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites by GLAVIN, Daniel P., CALLAHAN, Michael P., DWORKIN, Jason P., ELSILA, Jamie E.

“…– To investigate the effect of parent body processes on the abundance, distribution, and enantiomeric composition of amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites,…”
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Extraterrestrial amino acids and L‐enantiomeric excesses in the CM2 carbonaceous chondrites Aguas Zarcas and Murchison by Glavin, Daniel P., Elsila, Jamie E., McLain, Hannah L., Aponte, José C., Parker, Eric T., Dworkin, Jason P., Hill, Dolores H., Connolly, Harold C., Lauretta, Dante S.

“…The abundances, distributions, enantiomeric ratios, and carbon isotopic compositions of amino acids in two fragments of the Aguas Zarcas CM2 type carbonaceous…”
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Organometallic Compounds as Carriers of Extraterrestrial Cyanide in Primitive Meteorites by Smith, Karen E., House, Christopher H., Arevalo, Ricardo D., Jr, Dworkin, Jason P., Callahan, Michael P.

“…Extraterrestrial delivery of cyanide may have been crucial for the origin of life on Earth since cyanide is involved in the abiotic synthesis of numerous…”
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Prebiotic chiral transfer from self-aminoacylating ribozymes may favor either handedness by Kenchel, Josh, Vázquez-Salazar, Alberto, Wells, Reno, Brunton, Krishna, Janzen, Evan, Schultz, Kyle M., Liu, Ziwei, Li, Weiwei, Parker, Eric T., Dworkin, Jason P., Chen, Irene A.

“…Modern life is essentially homochiral, containing D-sugars in nucleic acid backbones and L-amino acids in proteins. Since coded proteins are theorized to have…”
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Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment by Johnson, Adam P, Cleaves, H. James, Dworkin, Jason P, Glavin, Daniel P, Lazcano, Antonio, Bada, Jeffrey L

“…Miller's 1950s experiments used, besides the apparatus known in textbooks, one that generated a hot water mist in the spark flask, simulating a water…”
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A Plausible Simultaneous Synthesis of Amino Acids and Simple Peptides on the Primordial Earth by Parker, Eric T., Zhou, Manshui, Burton, Aaron S., Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P., Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan, Fernández, Facundo M., Bada, Jeffrey L.

“…Following his seminal work in 1953, Stanley Miller conducted an experiment in 1958 to study the polymerization of amino acids under simulated early Earth…”
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Non-Protein Amino Acids Identified in Carbon-Rich Hayabusa Particles by Parker, Eric T., Chan, Queenie H. S., Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P.

“…Amino acid abundances in acid-hydrolyzed hot water extracts of gold foils containing five Category 3 (carbon-rich) Hayabusa particles were studied using liquid…”
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