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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

13 August 2014

A study led by Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) and Victor Sojo (UCL CoMPLEX/Biosciences) suggests that life's Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) had a 'leaky' membrane, which can offer clues as to how humans and other life evolved and grew. Read: Daily Mail, More: New Scientist (£), International Business Times, UCL News Listen: The Naked Scientists