How did life arise on Earth? Steven Strogatz speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Jack Szostak and Betül Kaçar, a paleogeneticist and astrobiologist, to explore our best understanding of how we all got here.
RNA
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In an artificially engineered experiment, researchers produced long strands of nucleoside triphosphates (the “letters” of RNA).