Explaining the controlled emergence and growth of molecular complexity at life’s origins is one of prebiotic chemistry’s grand challenges. Now, it has been shown that we can observe how the self-organization of a complex carbohydrate network can be modulated by its environment.
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Dherbassy, Q., Muchowska, K.B. Complex networks at life’s origins. Nat. Chem. 14, 597–599 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00962-9
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