Figure 1 A Wet-Dry Scenario in a Prebiotic Hot Spring or Tidal Pool (IMAGE)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Figure 1 A Wet-Dry Scenario in a Prebiotic Hot Spring or Tidal Pool

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A wet-dry scenario in a prebiotic hot spring or tidal pool. A) shows the pool with the five kinds of alpha hydroxy acids used in this study. B) shows the drying pool where a "library" of polyesters, depicted as the inset high-resolution mass spectra) forms at the drying edges. This simple formation of polyesters could have played a role in scaffolding the origins of life.

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Credit: Kuhan Chandru

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