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[News] Unselfish Molecules May Have Helped Give Birth to the Genetic Material of Life


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Unselfish Molecules May Have Helped Give Birth to the Genetic Material of Life

 

ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2010) — One of the biggest questions facing scientists today is how life began. How did non-living molecules come together in that primordial ooze to form the polymers of life? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that small molecules could have acted as "molecular midwives" in helping the building blocks of life's genetic material form long chains and may have assisted in selecting the base pairs of the DNA double helix.

 

Unselfish molecules may have helped give birth to the genetic material of life

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