The chemical components crucial to the start of life on
Earth may have primed and protected each other in never-before-realized ways,
according to new research led by University of Washington scientists.
It could mean a simpler scenario for how that first spark of
life came about on the planet, according to Sarah Keller, UW professor of
chemistry, and Roy Black, UW affiliate professor of bioengineering, co-authors
of a paper published online July 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences.
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