What types of nucleic acids existed before RNA and DNA?

Structure generation software allows scientists to begin exploring the types of nucleic acids that could have existed before, alongside, or indeed instead of, ribonucleic acid (RNA) and DNA.

Study describes revolutionary method of making RNAs

A biochemist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a co-author on a paper in Nature that describes a new, more efficient method of making ribonucleic acids (RNAs).

Jumping hurdles in the RNA world

Astrobiologists have shown that the formation of RNA from prebiotic reactions may not be as problematic as scientists once thought.

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