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by Rosalyn Bangham, that's Alec's wife. Now the conversation turned to a lecture that Alec had given a few years earlier at Bristol University with the title, ‘Membranes Came
First.’ “Alec argued that the self-assembly properties of lipids were such that the membrane's vesicles must have been present on the early Earth, long before nucleic acids and proteins came
along. But then we were stumped. What was the prebiotic equivalent of lipids that can self-assemble into membranes and where did they come from?"
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A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of various texture, both in animals and vegetables.
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