Rutgers Scientists Identify Protein that May Have Existed When Life Began
Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
How did life arise on Earth? Rutgers researchers have found among the first and perhaps only hard evidence that simple protein catalysts - essential for cells, the building blocks of life, to function - may have existed when life began. Their study of a primordial peptide, or short protein, is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.