The dawn of life: NMR has (some of) the details
 

The dawn of life: NMR has (some of) the details

http://www.spectroscopynow.com/commo...60e960d232.jpgNuclear 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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