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University of North Carolina Health Care

Dawn of Life

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At the dawn of life, catalysts most likely had to speed up chemical reactions to kick start the prebiotic evolution that led to biological evolution into cells. New research suggests how primordial proteins developed the ability to accelerate the central chemical reaction necessary to allow life to arise on Earth.

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