Curiosity Rover Unveils New Organic Molecules on Mars
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Proteins are essential molecules in living systems. They move, interact and organize themselves to carry out a wide range of functions, from helping cells communicate to forming structures inside the cell.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time on another planet, used a special chemical experiment to detect more than 20 complex organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rocks. The compounds, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule resembling ...