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From left, Nobel Prize laureate Jack Szostak of the Chicago Center for the Origins of Life, UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering postdoctoral researcher Aman Agrawal and UChicago PME Dean Emeritus Matthew Tirrell are behind a new paper proposing that raindrops helped droplets of biological materials floating in the primordial soup form the first protocell walls.

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