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Origins of life

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Understanding how life emerged on Earth is one of the greatest challenges facing modern chemistry. A new way of looking at the synthesis of RNA sidesteps a thorny problem in the field.

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Figure 1: Theories of prebiotic syntheses of pyrimidine ribonucleotides.

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  1. Jack W. Szostak is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. szostak@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu,
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Szostak, J. Systems chemistry on early Earth.Nature 459, 171–172 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459171a

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