Molecular ‘fossils’ offer microscopic clues to the origins of life – but they take care to interpret
By Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Liam Longo, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Institute of Science Tokyo
A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as researchers previously thought it did.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025