Scientists find evidence of key ingredient during dawn of life
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Before there were cells on Earth, simple, tiny catalysts most likely evolved the ability to speed up and synchronize the chemical reactions necessary for life to rise from the primordial soup. But what those catalysts were, how they appeared at the same time, and how they evolved into the two modern superfamilies of enzymes that translate our genetic code have not been understood.