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Simplified Proteins Are Giving Researchers a New Window Into Life’s Earliest Chemistry
Key Takeaways
- A new review examines proteins built from reduced amino acid alphabets.
- Experiments suggest early life may not have needed the 20 amino acids used by modern biology.
- Simple peptides can self-assemble into functional symmetric structures.
- The work has implications for both origin-of-life research and astrobiology.
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