Ancient chemistry may explain why living things use ATP as the universal energy currency

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Oct 4, 2022, 6:00 pm699 ptsHot
A simple two-carbon compound may have been a crucial player in the evolution of metabolism before the advent of cells, according to a new study published October 4 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, by Nick Lane and colleagues of University College London, U.K. The finding potentially sheds light on the…

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