Nobel Prize Winner “Blinded by Belief”: Retracts 2016 Paper on RNA Self-Replication

In a 2016 paper published in Nature Chemistry, Nobel Laureate Jack W. Szostak (professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University in Cambridge) claimed to show how RNA could self-replicate under conditions that may have been present during the early Earth environment – leading to the evolution of the first forms of life. He originally wrote: “The non-enzymatic…