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I went to a talk recently [1] in which the researcher explained a theory of the origin of life where early cell membranes were based on amyloids. The theory can be described as ocean vent metabolism and amino-acid first (as opposed to tide pool and radiation/lightning RNA) and it's definitely not the most accepted theory but it's pretty interesting. Here's an open paper [2] and the speaker's homepage [3]

[1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-buenaventura-embs-talk-fig...

[2] https://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/174...

[3] https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Russell/



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