Simple ingredients can approximate metabolic cycle sans metals, enzymes

Celia Henry Arnaud, senior correspondent with Chemical & Engineering News, covers new research conducted by Furman Chemistry Professor Greg Springsteen, Trent Stubbs '20 and scientists at The Scripps Research Institute. The study, which was published...

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Two chemicals in Earth’s primordial soup ‘allowed the first life to form’

Trent Stubbs, a 2020 Furman University alumnus, and his mentor Furman Chemistry Professor Greg Springsteen, have found a simple reaction between two chemicals in "Earth's primordial soup" billions of years ago may have led to...

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