Rutgers scientists identify protein that may have existed when life began
Friday, August 31, 2018 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
How did life arise on Earth? Rutgers researchers have found among the first and perhaps only hard evidence that simple protein catalysts – essential for cells, the building blocks of life, to function – may have existed when life began. Their study of a primordial peptide, or short protein, is published in the Journal of […]