1.0Harvard Gazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazetteharvardgazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/author/harvardgazette/Clues in clay — Harvard Gazetterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="mY0arUBwvb"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/clues-in-clay/">Clues in clay</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/clues-in-clay/embed/#?secret=mY0arUBwvb" width="600" height="338" title="“Clues in clay” — Harvard Gazette" data-secret="mY0arUBwvb" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/clay_605.jpg605403Research by physicists from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton, and Brandeis shows that clay vesicles provide an ideal container for the compartmentalization of complex organic molecules. The discovery opens the possibility that primitive cells may have formed inside inorganic clay microcompartments.