Chemical Reaction That Started Life On Earth Recreated In Lab

Quoc Phuong Tran, a Ph.D. Candidate in Prebiotic Chemistry at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, is actively engaged in unraveling this mystery by recreating the complex chain of reactions required for the formation of RNA in the primordial environment, which essentially led to life of Earth.

One avenue of exploration involves autocatalytic reactions – processes capable of producing chemicals that promote the continuation of the same reaction, making them adaptable to diverse conditions.

An example of an autocatalytic reaction with potential relevance to the…