Columbia University

Where did stuff come from? (1)

Researchers may have solved origin-of-life conundrum 3/16/15 …the conditions that produce nucleic acid precursors also create the starting materials needed to make natural amino acids and lipids. That suggests a single set of [light-activated] reactions could have given rise to most of life’s building blocks simultaneously. For comparison, see this approach to understanding the origin Where did stuff come from? (1)