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Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

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Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division
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Understanding the origin of life requires addressing a collection of overlapping scientific questions. We've made a lot of progress toward explaining how simple chemicals present on an early Earth built the complex molecules used by life and how some of those chemicals built the first genetic/catalytic molecules. But we're much further from understanding a key conundrum: How did membranes end up surrounding the first cells?
It's relatively easy to make membranes spontaneously form in water, and

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