#protocell — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #protocell, aggregated by home.social.
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A possible way for early life on Earth to survive cosmic radiation https://phys.org/news/2023-12-early-life-earth-survive-cosmic.html
An inorganic mineral-based #protocell with #prebiotic radiation fitness https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43272-5
"#Deinococcus radiodurans is capable of surviving levels of #radiation that would kill most other living creatures. Study of this #bacteria reveals that it is able to do so because of the amount of #manganese ions in its cell."