Scientists Think the Origins of Life Have Been Sitting Inside Our Cells This Entire Time

We’ve got new primordial soup content 🍜

Scientists call them biomolecular condensates and they might answer two completely different questions at once: how did life begin, and how does cancer start?

Over 100 years ago, a Russian biochemist named Alexander Oparin proposed that life emerged from chemical droplets i.e. biomolecular condensates that spontaneously formed in the early Earth’s oceans. But science quickly shelved that idea.

Then in 2009, researchers discovered these same kinds of d