The Primordial Soap – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander

The answers to life’s greatest questions – the when, what and how of its origins – have yet to be fully resolved. Currently, the leading hypothesis within the scientific community is that life developed from RNA molecules, known for their self-replication ability. Yet for the past two decades, Prof. Doron Lancet, of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Molecular Genetics Department, has been swimming against the currents of the primordial soup. “It is highly improbable that the origin of life traces back to a single complex molecule such as RNA,” says Lancet, “but more likely…