An experiment in recreating primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddle

ScienceDaily
Jun 22, 2020, 9:50 am46 pts
What did the very first proteins look like -- those that appeared on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago? Prof. Scientists have reconstructed protein sequences that may well resemble those ancestors of modern proteins, and their research suggests a way that these primitive proteins could have progressed to…

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