Read it and weep. This is the first experiment showing that it is possible to create metabolic networks in the absence of RNA, Ralser says. In the beginning we had hoped to find one reaction or two maybe, but the results were amazing, says Ralser. We could reconstruct two metabolic pathways almost entirely. The pathways they detected were glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway, reactions that form the core metabolic backbone of every living cell, Ralser adds. Together these pathways produce some of the most important materials in modern cells, including ATP – the molecule cells use to drive their machinery, the sugars that form DNA and RNA, and the molecules needed to make fats and proteins. newscientist/article/dn25471-spark-of-life-metabolism-appears-in-lab-without-cells.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news#.U1v2isrnYm_
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