Neat News 676 (added 2017-11-06)
Origins of Life
Public Domain by NASA/Apollo 17 crew
There is the question how life started from chemical compounds. It is assumed that three different substances are necessary to form the first primite life forms. It has, however, been unclear how these three substances - short strands of nucleotides, short chains of amino acids, and lipids - may have come together. Now a single substance, diamidophosphate, has been found which may have led to the generation of these substances.
