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RNA droplets may have helped start life on Earth

It's one of the origins-of-life chicken-or-egg problems: How could RNA have helped give rise to the first cells before there were cells to contain it?

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Scientists suggest that RNA could have formed droplets that acted as primitive compartments, helping the molecules find each other in the early Earth’s “primordial soup.” These droplets would have protected RNA from harsh conditions before cells existed. The study highlights how compartmentalization might have overcome the difficulty of vulnerable RNA molecules surviving and interacting without a cellular boundary.

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