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The Nature Geoscience study reports ribose and glucose among several bio-essential sugars identified in a Bennu sample extract. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:c77afd61c8c464fbe8ac542a54de4d1a71513877a17fda7fb7d057fe39361fc4

Here we analyse an extract from a sample of asteroid (101955) Bennu collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and identify several bio-essential sugars, including ribose (RNA sugar) and glucose (metabolism substrate).