Life's First Peptides May Have Grown on RNA Strands - Quanta Magazine

RNA and peptides coevolving in the primordial world might have jointly served as a precursor to the modern ribosome.

In a 2018 study, Carell and his team reported that the classic nucleotides and the noncanonical nucleotides likely all evolved at the same time before the dawn of life. Some of those in transfer and … [+4348 chars]

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