If amino acids are found, it would be especially interesting if they show a prevalence of one type of handedness, either left, like amino acids on Earth, or right.

Because simpler membranes are more likely to have formed from the natural organic chemistry factory on prelife Earth, the protocell project is working on plainer lipids - chiefly ordinary fatty acids.

And they found that they'd created a few amino acids. All life on Earth relies on these compounds to make proteins.