"The field is going through a minirenaissance, " says chemical biologist Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

位于加利福利亚州La Jolla的斯克里普斯研究所的生物化学家Gerald Joyce说，该领域正在经历一场迷你版的文艺复兴运动。

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More recently Gerald Joyce at Scripps has reported experiments in which two RNA sequences form collectively autocatalytic sets, each catalyzing the ligation of fragments that form the other.

最近斯克里普斯的杰拉尔德·乔伊斯报告说，在他的实验中，两个RNA序列形成了集体催化集，各自催化形成对方序列的碎片之间的连结。

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Gerald Joyce, of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, puts this really well in the New York Times, telling science reporter Dennis Overbye that these critters are stuck on the same tree of life as dinosaurs, plants, and yeast.

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