Chemical responsible for building blocks of life discovered
A US-based team led by Indian-origin researcher Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy have found a compound diamidophosphate (DAP), that is capable of combining three key ingredients to produce several building blocks of life on Earth. The team showed that using a reaction called phosphorylation, DAP could combine genetic information-storing nucleotide strands, amino acid chains, and lipids to enclose them.