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Life's earliest proteins may have folded into complex shapes with far fewer amino acids

  • April 23, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Life's earliest proteins may have folded into complex shapes with far fewer amino acids
How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the simplest building blocks of proteins—once limited to just half of today's amino acids—could still form the sophisticated structures life depends on.

Originally published at Phys.org

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