Wet-dry cycles could have allowed for synthesis of building blocks for RNA on early Earth
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

A team of researchers with members from institutions in Germany, the U.K. and Japan has developed a new theory to explain how RNA could have originated on early Earth. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group outlines what they describe as a plausible sequence of events that could have led to the natural synthesis of the building blocks of RNA. Nicholas Hud and David Fialho with the Georgia Institute of Technology have published a Perspective piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue.