RNA world

[_octopod]

Some researchers at Scripps Research Institute have successfully induced RNA enzymes to reproduce and compete -- so successfully, in fact, that three populations of new mutants showed up in the soup that outcompeted their original designed versions. Srsly.

Go check it out.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/replicatingrna.html

(original paper

Comments

[montyy0]

dude!