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Biologists Create Self-replicating RNA Molecule
"It's paradoxical that as our leading microbiologists look to create the building blocks of life in Earth-bound labs, our Universe is alive with the building blocks for DNA and RNA. The giant gas nebula in outer space are rife with sugars that form ribose --the backbone of RNA. There's no rational reason why the system of DNA and RNA that shaped life on Earth should be limited to our remote biosphere."
Story here.
I thought this story was interesting. Seems to me, with the vastness of space and the sheer numbers of planets, stars, etc. that it will only be time until life will be discovered somewhere besides Earth...
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