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Peptides keep their fold for weeks in 98 percent sulfuric acid
An MIT-led group reports in PNAS that short peptides survive for weeks in Venus-strength acid because almost no water is left to break their bonds. The finding concerns whether structure survives, a narrower question than whether life does.
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