Molecules that came in handy for first life on Earth
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
For the first time, chemists have successfully produced amino acid-like molecules that all have the same 'handedness', from simple building blocks and in a single test tube. Could this be how life started. On earth? Or in space, as the Philae lander is currently exploring? René Steendam researcher in Astrochemistry at Radboud University, the Netherlands has published the findings in Nature Communications.