Ancient chemistry may explain why living things use ATP as the universal energy currency (IMAGE)

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Ancient chemistry may explain why living things use ATP as the universal energy currency

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Molecular dynamic simulation of ADP and acetyl phosphate

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Aaron Halpern, UCL (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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