Indian scientists find new pathway to chemistry behind life

February 01, 2012 12:36

A team led by two Indian-origin scientists claims to have shown the plausibility of a new pathway to life's chemical building blocks, in what may help recreate the chemistry that might have allowed life to emerge on Earth.

Chemists have for long considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction as the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin. Now, Vasu Sagi along with Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy and colleagues at California's Scripps Research Institute say they have found an alternative pathway to those sugars, called the glyoxylate scenario, the Journal of the American Chemical Society reported.

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