science

20892 readers

270 users here now

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

m3t00@lemmy.world

Joleee@lemmy.world

laverabe@lemmy.world

DeadPand@midwest.social

laverabe@lemmy.zip

We May Finally Know How The First Cells on Earth Formed (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/science@lemmy.world

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

https://www.cell.com/chem/abstract/S2451-9294(24)00069-X

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I had a dollar for everytime I've read a similar story in the last thirty years...

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] astrsk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think the difference is they actually made the protocells for real? Not sure.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You'd have two dollars. But it's weird it happened twice, right?

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's how funding for grants works!