Life\'s biologic complexity (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Thursday, June 09, 2011, 00:04 (4703 days ago) @ David Turell

Just spotted this on twitter. Thought you might like to see it.-http://www.isgtw.org/feature/cern-lends-hand-origin-life-"..."The aim of this research group is to create theory and experiments to produce at least one, or several, candidate evolving protocells in the next decade." That is, creating life in a test tube from basic chemical ingredients."-"Hordijk and his colleague Mike Steel have developed a model of a chemical reaction system where the probability of an arbitrary molecule being a catalyst for an arbitrary reaction was two in a million, a probability that is "chemically plausible" he said. Running this model on the LHC computing grid, he found that, with this level of catalysis, a set of about 65,000 different molecule types or more will have a high probability of forming an autocatalytic set. This is actually reasonable for a chemist in a laboratory to test, he said."-"the origin of life is itself a problem in physics"

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