amino acids that could indicate the presence of life. Created by Alison Skelley and Richard Mathies of the University of California, Berkeley, in conjunction with NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MOA searches for amino acids that spiral to the left instead of the right, like most other amino acids. M
Date: Jun 22, 2014
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Rover rock find shows life on Mars was possible, say NASA scientists
''Now we know from ground truth chemical measurements that mudstone containing clays provided an environment that is not extremely harsh, consistent with, for example, microbial life at some time,'' said University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Richard Mathies, who was not part of the mission.
"It is fascinating to consider that the most basic biochemical building blocks that led to life on Earth may well have had an extraterrestrial origin," said UC Berkeley chemist Richard Mathies, coauthor of the paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, in a statement.
6 Aug 2008 College Of Chemistry - UC Berkeley wrote a note titled Richard Mathies, New dean of UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry. Read the full text ...