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Crucial building blocks of life on Earth can more easily form in outer space – new research
Perhaps life is more common in the universe that we think.
Now a new study, published in Science Advances, shows that a special group of molecules, known as peptides, can form more easily under the conditions of space than those found on Earth. The functions of life are upheld in our cells (and those of all living beings) by large, complex carbon-based (organic) molecules called proteins. However, despite their potentially important role in the origin of life, it was not so straightforward for peptides to form spontaneously under the environmental conditions on the early Earth.
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