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AB - ABSTRACTS OF THE ORAL PRESENTATIONS FROM THE TH 13 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE OAXACA, MEXICO, JUNE 30 TO JULY 5, 2002 Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 33: 243–312, 2003. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 244 ABSTRACTS OF THE ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT ISSOL ’02 ABSTRACTS OF THE ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT ISSOL ’02 245 PLENARY AND INVITED LECTURES 246 ABSTRACTS OF THE ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT ISSOL ’02 THE RNA WORLD AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE Leslie Orgel The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Recent X-ray studies of ribosomal structure provide strong evidence that there was once an RNA world in which RNAs functioned both as genetic and catalytic mo- lecules without assistance from RNA-coded peptides or proteins. This simplifies the problem of the origin of life in some ways because it is now only necessary to explain the origin of RNA, but it makes inference from biochemistry to prebiotic chemistry more problematical because all biochemicals except RNA may have been invented by RNA. I will first review recent experimental studies that relate to the possible de novo origin of the RNA world. Then I will emphasize 
TI - Abstracts of the Oral Presentations from the 13th International Conference on the Origin of Life Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 to July 5, 2002
JF - Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
DO - 10.1023/A:1024826809131
DA - 2004-10-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/abstracts-of-the-oral-presentations-from-the-13th-international-8MPNcWZUWa
SP - 243
EP - 312
VL - 33
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -