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Thursday, 26 July 2012

Meteorite Fragments Help Explain How Life Turned Left

Meteorite Fragments Help Explain How Life Turned Left

How Life Turned Left: Meteorite Fragments Help Explain Why
Living Things Only Use Molecules With Specific Orientations
ScienceDaily, July 25, 2012, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120725120706.htm

Origins of the Building Blocks for Life: Amino Acids and
Chirality by Jamie Elsila, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, 2012 Santander Summer School
http://cab.inta-csic.es/uploads/culturacientifica/adjuntos/20120718114202.pdf

NASA Find A Clue To How Life Turned Left by Bill Steigerwald
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/life-turned-left.html
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nasa-and-university-researchers-find-a-clue-to-how-life-turned-left-163740676.html

The paper is:

Glavin D. P., J. E. Elsila, A. S. Burton, J. P. Dworkin, R. W.
Hilts and C. D. K. Herd, 2012, Unusual non-terrestrial
L-proteinogenic amino acid excesses in the Tagish Lake
meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Best wishes,

Paul H.