Izaskun Jiménez Serra

Izaskun Jiménez Serra

Izaskun Jiménez Serra
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CSIC staff scientist, specialised in the chemistry of prebiotic molecules in the interstellar medium

Reactions to the discovery of an RNA component on the asteroid Ryugu

A Japanese research team has announced in Nature Communications that it found uracil, a component necessary to form RNA, in a small sample collected from the asteroid Ryugu. According to the authors, these results indicate that these molecules of prebiotic interest were commonly formed on asteroids like Ryugu, and reached the early Earth with the impact of these bodies. The sample was collected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 robotic spacecraft, which returned to Earth in December 2020.

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