The chemical composition of meteorites provides important information about which building blocks might have been available for the origin of life on Earth.
Author: ZackCohen
I am a graduate student in the Chemistry Department and Astrobiology Program at University of Washington. I study fatty acid membranes and roles that those membranes could have during the origins of life on Earth. I also enjoy mountain sports, cooking, and time travel movies.
Fast reactions by ribonucleotides might be a key to the origin of life on Earth
If RNA is essential for life to develop, how could it emerge from messy chemical mixtures on early Earth?