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Samples of collected by had , one of the informational units that make up , the molecules that contain the instructions for how to build and operate living organisms. Vitamin or , which is an important cofactor for in living organisms, was also detected in the same samples
phys.org/news/2023-03-rna-mole

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Uracil in the carbonaceous (162173) Ryugu: nature.com/articles/s41467-023 - the "initial analysis team for the soluble matter reported the detection of wide variety of organic molecules including racemic amino acids in the Ryugu samples. Here we report the detection of , one of the four in ribonucleic acid, in aqueous extracts from samples."

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