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A wet-dry scenario in a prebiotic hot spring or tidal pool. A) shows the pool with the five kinds of alpha hydroxy acids used in this study. B) shows the drying pool where a "library" of polyesters, depicted as the inset high-resolution mass spectra) forms at the drying edges. This simple formation of polyesters could have played a role in scaffolding the origins of life.　©Kuhan Chandru

Simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of life on Earth

Science June 25, 2018

Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, has demonstrated that reactions of alpha-hydroxy acids, like the alpha-amino acids that make up modern proteins, shape...

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