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A non-energetic mechanism for glycine formation in the interstellar medium

van Dishoeck, E. F.; Kofman, V.; Ioppolo, S. +8 more

The detection of the amino acid glycine and its amine precursor methylamine on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission provides strong evidence for a cosmic origin of amino acids on Earth. How and when such molecules form along the process of star formation remains debated. Here we report the laboratory detection of glycine form…