Study of enzymatic chemical reactions may indicate how the first cells formed colonies

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 12:20 in Physics & Chemistry

A novel investigation of how enzymatic reactions can direct the motion and organization of microcapsules may point toward a new theory of how protocells -- the earliest biological cells -- could have organized into colonies and thus, could have ultimately formed larger, differentiated structures.

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