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Primordial soup that cooks itself

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The spontaneous syntheses of some of life's building blocks from simple precursors have previously been demonstrated in isolation. Now it has been shown that they might all emerge from just one set of ingredients.

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Bracher, P. Primordial soup that cooks itself. Nature Chem 7, 273–274 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2219

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