Model Suggests How Life's Code Emerged From Primordial Soup - 0 views
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Charles Daney on 06 Sep 09By working with the simplest amino acids and elementary RNAs, physicists led by Rockefeller University's Albert J. Libchaber, head of the Laboratory of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, have now generated the first theoretical model that shows how a coded genetic system can emerge from an ancestral broth of simple molecules.