Indian-origin chemist finds new clue to how life began on Earth – The Siasat Daily

San Francisco, Dec 29 : Adding a fresh viewpoint to the origin of life on Earth, an Indian-origin researcher Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy from Scripps Research in California have made a discovery that a DNA-RNA mix began the first life form on our planet.
Krishnamurthy demonstrated that a simple compound called diamidophosphate (DAP), which was plausibly present on Earth before life arose, could have chemically knitted together tiny DNA building blocks called deoxynucleosides into strands of primordial…

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