Research: Evaporation Helped the Birth of Life on Earth

The concentration and separation of biomolecules was important in the formation of the first living cells on Earth. They

emerged from liquid matter that existed around the Earth about 4 billion years ago before the emergence of cellular life.

“We first learned about how molecules sharedbefore the evolution of membranes in early life forms. An important aspect for the emergence of life was the separation and concentration of biomolecules through evaporation in sufficient quantities for chemical reactions, ”said Andrew Brian Kinghorn, PhD student at the University of Hong Kong.

Hubble proved the existence of water on Jupiter's moon Europa

Experiments in the laboratory have confirmed that evaporation and drying leads to the separation and concentration of all the chemicals necessary for life.

Meanwhile, a team of scientists after an accidentaldiscovery wants to hear feedback from the world scientific community: “We do not have an action plan for what to do next. We ran the experiment out of curiosity. The study is about how complex things can arise from the very simple, like the origin of life. "

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