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Building blocks of life found among organic compounds on Comet 67P – what Philae discoveries mean
Scientists analysing the latest data from Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko have discovered molecules that can form sugars and amino acids, which are the building blocks of life as we know it. While this is a long, long way from finding life itself, the data shows that the organic compounds that eventually translated into organisms here on Earth existed in the early solar system.
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-blocks-life-compounds-comet-67p.html
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