[News] Model Suggests How Life's Code Emerged From Primordial Soup

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Model Suggests How Life's Code Emerged From Primordial Soup

 

ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2009) — In 1952, Stanley Miller filled two flasks with chemicals assumed to be present on the primitive Earth, connected the flasks with rubber tubes and introduced some electrical sparks as a stand-in for lightning. The now famous experiment showed what amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, could easily be generated from this primordial stew. But despite that seminal experiment, neither he nor others were able to take the next step: that of showing how life’s code could come from such humble beginnings.

 

Model Suggests How Life's Code Emerged From Primordial Soup