Researchers show RNA ribozymes able to cooperate to reassemble themselves
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A team of chemistry and applied sciences researchers from several universities in the United States has shown that RNA fragments torn apart in the lab work together to reassemble themselves. This finding, the team claims in their paper published in the journal Nature suggests that early life may have started with cooperative efforts between RNA molecules eventually leading to cooperative replication.