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Scientists resurrect 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme to reveal how life began on Earth
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Scientists have used synthetic biology to reconstruct ancestral nitrogenase enzymes that existed 3.2 billion years ago. This research provides new insights into how early life on Earth accessed nitrogen and how life might evolve on other planets.
Nitrogen is essential for every known form of life on Earth. Now, scientists say this common element may also help explain how the earliest life evolved on our planet and how life could develop elsewhere in the universe.
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