Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites

Furukawa Y.*, Chikaraishi Y., Ohkouchi N., Ogawa N.O., Glavin D.P., Dworkin J.P., Abe C., and Nakamura T.

PNAS 116, 24440-24445 (2019)

Biomolecule formation by oceanic impacts on early Earth

Furukawa Y.*, Sekine T., Oba M., Nakazawa H., Kakegawa T.

Nature Geoscience 2, 62-66 (2009)

Synthesis of 13C-enriched amino acids with 13C-depleted insoluble organic matter in a formose-type reaction in the early solar system

Yoshihiro Furukawa, Yoshinari Iwasa, and Yoshito Chikaraishi

Science Advances 7, eabd3575

Impact-induced amino acid formation on Hadean Earth and Noachian Mars

Takeuchi Y., Furukawa Y.*, Kobayashi T., Sekine T., Terada N. & Kakegawa T.

Scientific Reports 9220 (2020)

Abiotic regioselective phosphorylation of adenosine with borate in formamide

Furukawa Y.*, Kim H., Hutter D., Benner S. A.

Astrobiology 15,  259-267 (2015)

• Sugars found in meteorites（BBC World News）(2019)

• 隕石から糖の分子検出に成功（NHK）(2019)

• Study suggests life created by asteroid collisions（ABC NEWS）(2008)