Turns out the ingredients for life might not be so hard to come by after all. A NASA team has found that "a class of compounds that is critical to biochemistry is prevalent throughout the universe."
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Much of the chemistry of life, including DNA, requires organic molecules that contain nitrogen," said team member Louis Allamandola, an astrochemist at Ames. "Chlorophyll, the substance that enables photosynthesis in plants, is a good example of this class of compounds, called polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycles, or PANHs. Ironically, PANHs are formed in abundance around dying stars. So even in death, the seeds of life are sewn," Allamandola said.
Article: http://www.physorg.com/news7159.html
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