Chemists Join RNA and Amino Acids, Replicating a Critical Moment in The Creation of Life
Chemists Join RNA and Amino Acids, Replicating a Critical Moment in The Creation of Life
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Chemists Have Replicated a Critical Moment in The Creation of Life
The spontaneous coalescence of the molecules that led to life on primordial Earth, some 4 billion years ago, may have finally been observed in a laboratory.
Scientists have found a new way to stir their primordial soup to get the building blocks of life to start assembling. "[Their] study unites two prominent origin of life theories – the 'RNA world', where self-replicating RNA is proposed to be fundamental, and the 'thioester world', in which thioesters are seen as the energy source for the earliest forms of life".