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_Tokyo Institute of Technology

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A team of scientists from the Earth-Life Science Institute have discovered that simple organic compounds like glycolic and lactic acid polymerize and self-assemble into cell-sized droplets when dried and rewetted, as might have happened along primitive beaches and drying puddles.

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Nerissa Escanlar, ELSI

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