abiogenesis
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An ‘RNA World’ Could Have Kickstarted Life on Earth
Researchers seeking to understand how life may have emerged from Earth’s primordial soup have found an interesting behavior of ribonucleic acid (RNA), which they suggest could have given way to RNA-based life. The team’s research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes a ribozyme that could create an environment…
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Building Blocks of RNA Spotted at the Centre of the Milky Way
A team of researchers say they’ve found some building blocks of RNA in a molecular cloud close to the centre of the Milky Way. The discovery has implications for theories about how life began on Earth — and perhaps elsewhere.
