Prebiotic evolution: Hairpins help each other out

Posted by on February 16, 2017 2:38 pm
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The evolution of cells and organisms is thought to have been preceded by a phase in which informational molecules like DNA could be replicated selectively. New work shows that hairpin structures make particularly effective DNA replicators.

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