Episode Details

Nels and Vincent dive deep into evolution and consider how new proteins emerged billions of years ago, when there were no other proteins to serve as starting material.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Primordial emergence of a nucleic acid binding protein (bioRxiv)
• Tawfik laboratory
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiEVO 51
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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