http://science.slashdot.org/article....16239&from=rss

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MISSION NEWS
Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star

12.20.05

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic
ingredients in the dust swirling around a young star. The ingredients -
gaseous precursors to DNA and protein - were detected in the star's
terrestrial planet zone, a region where rocky planets such as Earth are
thought to be born.

<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/spitzer-20051220.html>