Lukas VFN 🇪🇺A possible way for early life on Earth to survive cosmic radiation https://phys.org/news/2023-12-early-life-earth-survive-cosmic.html
An inorganic mineral-based #protocell with #prebiotic radiation fitness https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43272-5
"#Deinococcus radiodurans is capable of surviving levels of #radiation that would kill most other living creatures. Study of this #bacteria reveals that it is able to do so because of the amount of #manganese ions in its cell."
A possible way for early life on Earth to survive cosmic radiation
A team of biophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has uncovered via experimentation the means by which early life might have been able to survive cosmic radiation. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group conducted experiments with radiation-resistant manganese antioxidants.
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