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Chemists may be zeroing in on chemical reactions that sparked the first life

19 May 2017

Dr Matthew Powner and Dr Shaun Stairs (UCL Chemistry) have identified simple reactions that, using the raw materials on early Earth, can synthesize all four building blocks of RNA, closing in on a plausible scenario for how life on Earth began.   Read: Science, More: UCL News