You'd Prefer An Argonaute

An article published Wednesday in the New York TImes highlights a new Letter in Nature that further bolsters the RNA World hypothesis.

Hmm… time it is to dust off the old organic chemistry textbook from college and make sense of phrases like, (from paper): “…intra-adduct attack of the glycolaldehyde-derived hydroxyl group on the cyanamide-derived nitrile carbon…” Indeed.