Chemists Concoct Part of Life's Recipe


	Chemists Concoct Part of Life's Recipe

wildcat

11-18-2007 9:29 AM

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life, biology, chemistry, biomolecules, genetics

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11-18-2007 10:04 AM

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Molecular 'valves' that repel or attract via ionisation, pumping or not pumping water, on or off, a likely bet.

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For decades, scientists have argued about and pondered over whether biology began on our planet or arrived from above. If it started here, it presumably took millions of years for Earth to cook up life's essential molecules from scratch. 
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Now a team of chemists has computed a possible real-world recipe for one of these biomolecules, in research that suggests life started in a local pond rather than raining down from <A href="http://www.space.com/">space</A>. 
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Living cells are like tiny chemical factories, assembling long molecular chains such as DNA and proteins. But prior to <A href="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070822_gm_life_origins.html">life's emergence on Earth</A>, these complex molecules must have come together by themselves, without the help of living cells. 
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"Just where these biomolecules originated isn’t known," said Paul von Rague Schleyer from the University of Georgia. "They could have formed from smaller molecules present on primitive Earth, either very slowly over millions of years or rapidly before the Earth cooled down." 
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