Quotes from the articles

“By changing the way we mix the ingredients together, we managed to make ribonucleotides,” said Sutherland. “The chemistry works very effectively from simple precursors, and the conditions required are not distinct from what one might imagine took place on the early Earth.”

"Two essential elements of RNA have finally been made from scratch, under conditions similar to those that likely prevailed during the dawn of life."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227084.200-molecule-of-life-emerges-from-laboratory-slime.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ribonucleotides/

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