From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Proteins have generally taken a back seat to RNA molecules in scientists’ speculations about how life on Earth started. Yet a new computational ...

Nearly four billion years ago, the earliest precursors of life on Earth emerged. First small, simple molecules, or monomers, banded together to form larger, more complex molecules, or polymers. Then ...

Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 11 / 201123112450.htm ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

This is the latest iteration of DeepMind’s landmark AI model, which was used to predict the structure of nearly every protein known to science in 2022 – more than 200m proteins in total.

A pair of RNA-like molecules can spontaneously assemble into gene-length chains, chemists in the United States and Spain report. Billions of years ago, related molecules may have created a ...

He has used those nonbiological molecules to create protein-mimicking materials. Now he’s using peptoids to test the HP model’s predictions by examining how sequences fold and whether they would make ...