protocells

Chemistry

Biochemists create protocells to investigate how lipids formed the first cell membranes

Credit: Nature Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01666-y A team of biochemists at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with a group of biochemical engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, discovered that the development of short lipids may have led to the development of early cell membranes. Earth. In a study published in the journal Nature Chemistry, the…