Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report

Friday, September 3, 2010 - 16:21 in Physics & Chemistry

MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA -- One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals -- such as amino acids and nucleotides --...

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