What is the origin of the genetic code?

In a project supported by the Volkswagen foundation, the lab of Bojan Zagrovic and their collaborators Zoya Ignatova (University of Hamburg) and Markus Zweckstetter (MPI Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen) aim at experimentally and computationally testing the mRNA-protein complementarity hypothesis. This novel and still controversial idea could help explain the origin of the universal genetic code, but may also carry major implications for the biology of today. The grant amounts to a total of €1.5 m and is coordinated by Zoya Ignatova.

Read the full interview with Bojan here.