Scripps research team creates simple chemical system that mimics DNA
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 16:35
in Biology & Nature
La Jolla, CA, June 11, 2009 ?A team of Scripps Research scientists has created a new analog to DNA that assembles and disassembles itself without the need for enzymes. Because the new system comprises components that might reasonably be expected in a primordial world, the new chemical system could answer questions about how life could emerge.