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García Ruiz notes that their “protocells” form through the action of bubbling, using repeated units of hydrocyanic acid, a simple molecule composed of one hydrogen atom, one carbon atom, and one nitrogen atom.

Does this mean that the bubbles are actually made of HCN? This would be a lot more compelling if we knew the "cell like structures" were made of lipids like modern cells. I can't understand what's going on from this article well enough to tell whether the hype is warranted.

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