How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

How did life arise on Earth? It’s one of the greatest and most ancient mysteries in all of science — and the clues to solving it are all around us. Steven Strogatz speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Jack Szostak and Betül Kaçar, a paleogeneticist and astrobiologist, to explore our best understanding of how we all got here.

Cyanide and Life on Early Earth, News

Frontiers A Proterozoic microbial origin of extant cyanide

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Cyanide may have played a key role in the origin of life on Earth

The Cyanide Tooth Is a Cold War Fairy-Tale - Atlas Obscura

Insects That Make Cyanide – Plants Rule

Can we recreate the spark of life?

Quantifying Cyanide Using Headspace Single-Drop Microextraction