The prebiotic emergence of protocells is an important part of chemical origin of life. This study shows that cyclic-phospholipids formed from fatty acids and glycerol could have played a role by generating a heterogeneous library of vesicles with diverse morphologies and tolerance to a range of metal ions, temperature, and pH.
If I had a dollar for everytime I’ve read a similar story in the last thirty years…
This sounds just like what we covered in my freshman biology class 9 years ago. Phosphoipid-lined vesicles providing space for self replicating nucleic acids to go bonkers.
Am i missing something from this specific paper?
I think the difference is they actually made the protocells for real? Not sure.
You’d have two dollars. But it’s weird it happened twice, right?
That’s how funding for grants works!