How to Use ribose in a Sentence

ribose

noun

• One group of researchers in Japan, for instance, found sugar ribose and – in a major first – glucose.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
• For life on Earth, the sugars deoxyribose – which the researchers did not detect – and ribose are key building blocks of DNA and RNA, respectively.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
• The researchers say the most exciting of these is ribose, a sugar that forms the backbone of RNA — a molecule that stores genetic information, helps build proteins, and carries out many of life's essential chemical reactions.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 3 Dec. 2025
• Previous detection of sugars such as ribose and glucose in primitive meteorites and in samples from the asteroid Bennu collected in 2020 suggested to scientists that some sugars may have originated in space.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
• Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found ribose, a crucial building block of RNA, and glucose, an energy-rich sugar used by nearly all life on Earth.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 3 Dec. 2025