Imaginative organic chemistry points the way both to the evolutionary sophistication of the mechanical elements of the cell membrane and to a model for the first synthesis of the archeabacterium membrane.
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Maddox, J. Origin of the first cell membrane?. Nature 371, 101 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/371101a0
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