Spontaneous synthesis of RNA

[bojan]

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-scient...eekly-nwletter

[ChrisD (Chris)]

So that's how you get from geochemistry to biochemistry using readily available materials. Interesting.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Thanks Bojan. Made sense that something had to serve as a substrate to populate and protect larger RNA molecules (at least that is how I read it). How interesting that one possibility turns out to be readily available glass.

This is potentially a really fundamental advance, but it seems to have snuck through without causing much of a flutter... thanks so much for the heads up.

Cheers Ray