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A Recipe for Primordial Life

A Recipe for Primordial Life

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Further reading

  • BBC article – “The secret of how life on Earth began” (October 2016)
  • Smithsonian YouTube video – “This Molecule Could Explain the Origin of Life” (April 2018)
  • Nature article – “How did life begin?” (May 2018)
  • New Scientist article – “The epic hunt for the place on Earth where life started” (June 2018)
  • ScienceDaily press release – “Exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth” (August 2018)
  • eLife article – “Ribozyme-catalysed RNA synthesis using triplet building blocks” (2018)
  • Nature Reviews Chemistry article – “Studies on the origin of life – the end of the beginning” (2017)
  • Nature Chemistry article – “Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism” (2015)
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