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Published online 4 January 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000106-7
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A whole old world
Researchers may have found a bridge to a lost world at the bottom of a test tube, reports Sara Abdulla.
US Researchers have created a molecule, the like of which may have been responsible for the emergence of the living world as we know it from an altogether different proposition.
In the brouhaha that surrounds all things DNA-related -- gene therapy, the human genome project, DNA computing -- it is easy to assume that life was ever thus.
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