Life's building blocks spontaneously self-assemble in primordial soup experiment

Exactly how life sprung out of non-living matter is one of biology's biggest mysteries. But with continued research into our own origin story, it's starting to seem like life on early Earth was just itching to be born. In new research from Georgia Tech and the Scripps Research Institute, scientists cooked up a "primordial soup" and found that some of the crucial building blocks of life spontaneously stacked themselves in a surprisingly efficient way.

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Category: Biology

Tags:

• Amino Acids
• Chemistry
• Evolution
• Georgia Tech
• Life
• Protein
• Scripps Research Institute

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