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Published online 19 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021216-9
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Stripped down genetic code provides candidates for first molecules of life.
Chemists in the United States have constructed the simplest possible genetic language. Like Morse or binary code, it has only two letters - but it can orchestrate some of the basic molecular reactions needed for life to evolve.
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