Evidence that Earth’s first cells could have made specialized compartments

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“Protocells” containing bubble-like compartments formed spontaneously on a mineral-like and encapsulated fluorescent dye. This could have been what happened 3.8 billion years ago when cells first began to form. Credit: Karolina Spustova
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-evidence-earth-cells-specialized-compartments.html

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