Martins found the answer by extracting two molecules
from the meteorite: uracil, a nucleobase found in RNA, and
xanthine, an intermediate in the synthesis of DNA and RNA.
For the speculative thinker, there are only a few jumps
from there to the idea that such caffeine - eating bacteria could let us have some of that energy, or otherwise make
xanthine easier to digest — but that's a story for another day.
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