"The human body relies heavily on electrical charges. Lightning-like
pulses of energy fly through the brain and nerves and most biological
processes depend on electrical ions traveling across the membranes of
each cell in our body.
These
electrical signals are possible, in part, because of an imbalance in
electrical charges that exists on either side of a cellular membrane.
Until recently, researchers believed the membrane was an essential
component in creating this imbalance. But that thought was turned on its
head when researchers at Stanford University discovered that similar imbalanced electrical charges can exist between microdroplets of water and air.
Now, researchers at Duke University
have discovered that these types of electric fields also exist within
and around another type of cellular structure called biological
condensates. Like oil droplets floating in water, these structures exist
because of differences in density. They form compartments inside the
cell without needing the physical boundary of a membrane.
“Most previous work on biomolecular condensates has focused on their
innards,” Chilkoti said. “Yifan’s discovery that biomolecular
condensates appear to be redox-active suggests that condensates did not
simply evolve to carry out specific biological functions as is commonly
understood, but that they are also endowed with a critical chemical
function that is essential to cells.”
The
powerhouses of our cells, called mitochondria, create energy for all of
our life’s functions through the same basic chemical process. ---But
before mitochondria or even the simplest of cells existed, something had
to provide energy for the very first of life’s functions to begin
working.
Researchers have proposed that the energy was provided by thermal vents
in the oceans or hot springs.
Others have suggested this same redox
reaction that occurs in water microdroplets was created by the spray of
ocean waves." SciTech Daily
Here's another option of what the "SOMETHING" 
was----
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7