Scientists tinkering with a chemical now vital to life think they’ve recreated one of the central molecules that first gave rise to the chemistry of life.
Hiroaki Suga of the State University of New York at Buffalo and his coworkers from Buffalo and the University of Tokyo altered a type of RNA, or ribonucleic acid, the chemical that orchestrates protein making.
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