Big bang in the protein universe?
Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 13:32
in Physics & Chemistry
New research is providing evidence supporting the common ancestry of life, thanks to a new computational approach to study protein evolution. The work takes its inspiration from the astronomer Edwin Hubble and uses his approach to study protein evolution. The extrapolation of Hubble's approach to proteins shows that proteins that share a common ancestor billions of years ago continue to diverge in their molecular composition.