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Monday, 8 April 2013

Life Might Have Emerged On Earth In Saline Environments

Life Might Have Emerged On Earth In Saline Environments

How Life May Have First Emerged On Earth: Foldable
Proteins in a High-Salt Environment, Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130405064027.htm
and http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/04/05/researcher.offers.clues.origins.life

The paper is:
Longo, L. M., and J. Lee, M. Blaber. Simplified protein design
biased for prebiotic amino acids yields a foldable, halophilic
protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
vol. 110, no. 6, pp. 2135-2139. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219530110
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2135

Yours,
Paul H.