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Scientists Recreate First Spark Of Life

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/...roid-collision

Using a high-power laser to simulate a collision, scientists from the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic created the four essential ingredients of RNA, a close relative of DNA, from a chemical soup. While the work can’t prove how life started on Earth, it is the first time that these four molecules have all been made under one set of experimental conditions. The work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.