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>On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: “again.” The paper itself cited similar results dating back to 2011, and the ensuing years have seen various confirmations and more rigorous studies. The new work was less notable for showing that we had found these bases in Ryugu than for solving a previous mystery: earlier studies had failed to detect them there, despite their presence in many other asteroid samples.

Archive: https://archive.today/Cspab From the post: >>On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: “again.” The paper itself cited similar results dating back to 2011, and the ensuing years have seen various confirmations and more rigorous studies. The new work was less notable for showing that we had found these bases in Ryugu than for solving a previous mystery: earlier studies had failed to detect them there, despite their presence in many other asteroid samples.
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The last time I looked into this the matter was greatly overhyped.

Yes, there were organic molecules there, in the sense that Organic Chemistry is the study of the carbon atom and the molecules in which it is involved.

No, it was not a self-sustaining reaction. You would get neither The Blob, nor Green Alien Slave Girls. Anything in the rock would be more likely to be eaten by Terran life that be a threat.