Adding UV Light Helps Form "Missing G" of RNA Building Blocks

Monday, June 14, 2010 - 08:52 in Physics & Chemistry

For scientists attempting to understand how the building blocks of RNA originated on Earth, guanine has proven to be a particular challenge. By adding UV light to a model prebiotic reaction, researchers have discovered a route by which guanine could have been formed.

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