Gels may have given early Earth chemistry a place to organize into life

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025

An international team from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany has proposed that life on Earth may have emerged within sticky, surface-bound gels that formed before the first cells. The researchers argue that these prebiotic gels, attached to mineral or other surfaces, could have provided both structure and chemical environments that helped early chemistry progress toward biology.

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