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6 days ago

Nobel laureate shares research exploring the origins of life | Cornell Chronicle

RNA-based chemistry and open-minded experimental approaches are central to understanding how molecules could have formed the first living cells on early Earth.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

Random, spontaneous chemistry can link amino acids to RNA in neutral water, enabling protein formation before ribosomes and guiding early protein synthesis.
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1 month ago

Experiment sheds light on the origin of life, supporting the existence of a thioester world' before living beings

In 1991, De Duve proposed a hypothesis about the origin of life that did not require any deity: the thioester world, a compound containing carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur. On that primordial planet, still devoid of life, thioesters would have provided the energy necessary for chemical elements to react and form more complex molecules, such as the first genetic material, RNA.
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