Protein-like structures from the primordial soup

Monday, September 12, 2016 - 11:51 in Biology & Nature

Experiments performed by ETH scientists have shown that it is remarkably easy for protein-like, two-dimensional structures—amyloids—to form from basic building blocks. This discovery supports the researchers' hypothesis that primal life could have evolved from amyloids such as these.

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