Researchers have taken a pivotal step toward understanding how living cells could have originated from nonliving matter. At ...

The long carbon chains are thought to have originated from fatty acids, which are produced by biological activity on Earth. Fatty acids can also form from non-biological activity.

Scientists have long debated how the first cell membranes formed. Their building blocks, long-chain lipids, were hard to find on early Earth. Shorter fatty molecules, on the other hand, were abundant.

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

The researchers think that the alkane molecules may once have been components of more complex fatty acid molecules. On Earth, fatty acids are components of fats and oils. They are produced through ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process Margherita Bassi - Daily Correspondent ...

On Earth, fatty acids are among the essential organic molecules known to be responsible for life; they play a vital role in forming cell membranes and facilitating cell function.