Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life

ScienceDaily -- Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once and for all over which of these life forms came first.

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