John Sutherland (chemist)

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John D. Sutherland is a chemist at Medical Research Council (UK) (MRC), Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division.^[1]

In 2009, in an article in Nature, Sutherland announced that he had discovered how nucleotides could have joined to form from natural chemicals and thus create life.^[2] In June 2012, Sutherland, along with his former colleague, the chemist Matthew Powner, from University College London, won the Origin of Life Challenge.^[3]

Works

Matthew W. Powner and John D. Sutherland - "Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 2011 366, 2870-2877

References

↑
- Institute Overview
↑ Nicholas Wade, "Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life", New York Times, 13 May 2009. Accessed 12 December 2012.
↑ John Sutherland co-wins the Origin of Life Challenge Announcement

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Origin of Life Challenge

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