Iron Did the Job of Magnesium Billions of Years Ago

Scientists with the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) say that iron did the job of magnesium some three million years ago, when it helped ribonucleic acid (RNA) take on the molecular shapes that ultimately enabled it to support compl... [ read more >> ]

Iron replaced magnesium in RNA for more than a billion years after the planet was formed

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Iron replaced magnesium in RNA for more than a billion years after the planet was formed