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RNA on the early earth: damaged by light, helped by vesicles

RNA on the early earth: damaged by light, helped by vesicles

May 24, 2019

RNA is widely agreed to be an early, if not the earliest, molecular basis for life. However, conditions on the early Earth were not terribly hospitable. While high-energy photons are important for prebiotic synthesis, they also damage nucleic acids. Postdoctoral...

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