Did ‘midwife molecule’ assemble first life on Earth?
The primordial soup that gave birth to life on Earth may have had an extra, previously unrecognised ingredient: a "molecular midwife" that played a crucial role in allowing the first large biomolecules to assemble from their building blocks.
Forming a double helix prevents the RNA from going round in circles (Image: Laguna Design/SPL)
The earliest life forms [...]
