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Primordial Beginnings: How Soda Lakes May Have Cradled Early Life
A study suggests that soda lakes, characterized by high levels of dissolved sodium and carbonate, might have provided the right conditions for the first cells. These early cells may have been composed of RNA inside lipid membranes. But RNA function requires divalent cations such as Mg2+, which di
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