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Molecule of Life Emerges from Slime Thursday, May 14, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Creating life in the primordial soup may have been easier than we thought. Two essential elements of RNA have finally been made from scratch, under conditions similar to those that likely prevailed during the dawn of life. The question of how a molecule capable of storing genetic information - even DNA's simpler cousin RNA - could ever have arisen spontaneously in the primordial cooking pot has perplexed scientists for decades. (source: newscientist.com)
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