Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination controls. Inside the cleanest of clean rooms, a tiny particle was collected ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid called Ryugu. The Japanese Space Agency ...

Microbes are everywhere on Earth. If a place can harbor life, there are probably microbes there. This includes the frozen lakes of Antarctica, the intensely hot springs of Yellowstone, and the human ...

Approach Mixes UV/VIS with Spectral Content Profiling for Yield and Quality Assessment Molecular genetic assays strongly rely on well-performed nucleic acid isolation as contamination with ...