co - author dr zita martins , a chemist and astrobiologist from imperial university uk , said their findings suggesting that some of the things that generated life on earth came from meteorite gunships . " we are not telling that only fragments contribution to the making block of life , " she continued , " but it ' s a very great contributed . " other scientists , meanwhile , do not believe that meteoritic chemicals played such a important contribution . according to emeritus professor robert rand of current york tech , " they ' re a subunit of a subunit of dna . my opinion is that their results were largely trifling and insignificant . " wikinews contacted professor george jones , a physicist and astrobiologist working at arizona state university , about the recent reports . while he agreed with the findings , he responded that he thinks such products are " a pink herring in the origin of our fiction - a cure from the miller - urey experiment . life is all about science - its replicate and compilation . "
Shapiro teaches at NY University.