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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

The Joy of Why

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How to Make Primitive Membranes From Simple Molecules

Youkno: Cells are bounded by er membranes, and they tend to be pretty complicated structures. But it turns out that you can make very similar membranes for much simpler molecules - things like soap. We've been getting better at copying orna sequences. On the other hand, getting rna sequences to replicate is a much harder problem. And we have ideas about how to do it, but we haven't gotten there yet.

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