[meteorite-list] Indian scientists detect signs of life on Moon

[oxytropidoceras at cox.net]

Indian scientists detect signs of life on Moon by Bhargavi Kerur, 
DNA, Read the World, december 12, 2009

http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_indian-scientists-detect-signs-of-life-on-moon_1322785

Life on the moon, The Irish Times, December 12, 2009

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1212/1224260586652.html

Sounds like a reporter is getting carried away with his imagination.

Does anyone know anything about the claim in the first article that:

"However, traces of amino acids, which are basic to life, 
were found in the soil retrieved by the Apollo-11 astronauts."?

Yours,

Paul H.