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University of Houston: Life From a Drop of Rain - New Research Suggests Rainwater Helped Form the First Protocell Walls
August 22, 2024
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news on Aug. 21, 2024:

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A Nobel-winning Biologist, Two Engineering Schools, and a Vial of Houston Rainwater Cast New Light on the Origin of Life on Earth

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One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating around the primordial soup turned into the membrane-protected packets of life we call cells.

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