Self-assembly of the first cells in a hydrophobic environment with hydrogen as the energy source
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Self-assembly of the first cells in a hydrophobic environment with hydrogen as the energy source
Riv Biol.
2001 Sep-Dec.
Abstract
Two fundamental questions in biology are how and where the first cell(s) self-assembled under anoxic conditions on the Earth. The possibility is explored that life first self-assembled in a hydrophobic environment in the subsurface protected from radiation with ubiquitous hydrogen as the likely universal energy source.
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