Posted by: Sandy Steinman | September 26, 2024

Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls

ScienceDaily reports

New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, animal, and human that ever lived.

Read more  Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls | ScienceDaily


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