The dawn of life: NMR has (some of) the details
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and other techniques have been used to study the linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate. Such cycles could be perceived as being proto-metabolic analogues of the citric acid cycle on which life depends and might provide a new clue as to how life on earth emerged from the primordial soup.
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