Surprisingly simple experiments conducted under everyday conditions may have finally solved the mystery of how components of DNA and RNA formed from chemicals present on the Earth in the days before life existed, claims recent research. As part of their study, a team of scientists from the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution at the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a series of basic laboratory reactions in water, and were able to synthesize what they believe may be good candidates for the missing links of life. When the components they created joined together, the end products even resembled RNA, they explained in a statement. With additional research, the study authors believe they could discover most of the chemistry that caused life to emerge from the primordial soup, and perhaps even gain new insight into the possibility that living organisms exist on other worlds. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113413793/building-blocks-life-042516/ Paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160425/ncomms11328/full/ncomms11328.html
