article_snippet: Chemists have found it is possible to create the three main molecular building blocks of life - DNA, proteins and lipids - from hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide and ultraviolet light.
article_snippet: the creation of hydrogen cyanide that scientists have found findings suggest that the basic components for biological cells could have all occurred simultaneously in primordial ponds and streams, coming together to form the first cells.
article_snippet: Meteorite fragments and bedrock in craters like this one could have reacted with hydrogen cyanide dissolved in pools of water to create salts that react with heat and ultraviolet light to create RNA, lipids and amino acids .
article_snippet: The researchers behind the new paper propose a number of geochemical steps shown above that could have seen hydrogen cyanide start a series of reactions that led to the creation of amino acids, nucleic acids and lipids necessary for life.
article_snippet: The researchers behind the latest study, which is published in the journal Nature Chemistry, found The researchers behind the latest study, which is published in the journal Nature Chemistry could make nucleic acids - a precursor for RNA and DNA - from hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide and UVlight.
article_snippet: The researchers behind the latest study, which is published in the journal Nature Chemistry also found the same basic ingredients could also lead to the creation of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, and lipids which form the protective membranes around biological cells.
article_snippet: new research was carried out by a team from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and published in the journal Nature.
article_snippet: But the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) physicists led by Dr Dieter Braun showed experimentally that pore systems on the seafloor that were heated by volcanic activity, namely hydrothermal vents, could have served as reaction chambers for RNA.
highlights_snippet: Scientists created precursors to RNA, proteins and lipids in basic reactions .
  
highlights_snippet: The research was conducted by chemists at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge .