Recent experiments and simulations are starting to answer some fundamental questions about how life came to be.
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Edited by Mark Ratner, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved February 19, 2014 (received for review December 20, 2013)
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- Published in issue March 25, 2014.
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- aBioMolecular Optics and Center for Integrated Protein Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80538 Munich, Germany; and
- bCenter for Integrated Protein Science, Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 81377 Munich, Germany
Edited by Mark Ratner, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved February 19, 2014 (received for review December 20, 2013)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: wolfgang.zinth{at}physik.uni-muenchen.de or thomas.carell{at}cup.uni-muenchen.de.
Author contributions: D.B.B. and W.Z. designed research; D.B.B. and B.M.P. performed research; D.B.B., T.C., and W.Z. analyzed data; and D.B.B., T.C., and W.Z. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1323700111/-/DCSupplemental.
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