Glimpse of how the 'code' of life may have emerged
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
A portion of the "code" of life has been unraveled by a graduate student. She aimed to decipher intramolecular communication within a large RNA-protein enzyme responsible for expressing the genetic code for the amino acid glutamine. To her surprise, the experiments captured a partial glimpse of how the genetic coding of life may have emerged.