Re: OT: Life from a drop of rain, New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:33:34 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls
A Nobel-winning biologist, two engineering schools, and a vial of Houston rainwater
cast new light on the origin of life on Earth
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240821150020.htm
Date:
August 21, 2024
Source:
University of Chicago
Summary:
New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, animal, and human that ever lived.
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There you go, simplicity!

It's easy to form a blob with some goo inside. Like mayonaise.

The hard part is the DNA and all its tousands of supporting
structures.