Origin of life (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Monday, January 09, 2012, 14:53 (4703 days ago)

A new approach in the lab. Trying a nucleotide with a simpler sugar. Note the reference to Darwinian evolution of a molecule. Evolution opccurs ijn life, not pre-life. Also note the use of a polymerizing enjyme, just hanging around in the pre-life era? I love active grantsmanship in the OOL labs!

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-simpler-earlier-genetic-molecule-predate.html

Origin of life

by David Turell @, Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 01:18 (4702 days ago) @ David Turell

Another note about this odd molecule. Note the comment about the messiness of the old Earth and probably this molecule dod not exist.:

http://www.genomeweb.com//node/1010256?hq_e=el&hq_m=1170885&hq_l=2&hq_v=917...

Origin of life; ? on land?

by David Turell @, Thursday, February 16, 2012, 00:58 (4665 days ago) @ David Turell

Some of the latest thinking. Too much potassium in sea water for life to start:-http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21471-russian-hot-springs-point-to-rocky-origins-for-life.html?page=2

Origin of life; ? in Norway

by David Turell @, Saturday, April 28, 2012, 15:37 (4593 days ago) @ David Turell

Near Oslo, an outsider, an unknown branch of very early life from a billion years ago: -
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426104853.htm

Origin of life; retrospective

by David Turell @, Monday, July 30, 2012, 21:00 (4500 days ago) @ David Turell

retrospective on early research which has gone nowhere:-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/07/29/stanley-miller-and-the-quest-to-understand-lifes-beginning/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20120730

Origin of life

by David Turell @, Monday, August 27, 2012, 18:06 (4472 days ago) @ David Turell

Now a breathless report that DNA started life. Please note the ifs, ands, and buts:-http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528795.500-dna-could-have-existed-long-before-life-itself.html-Pie in the sky reporting. Note the comments, especially the sharply negative.

Origin of life

by David Turell @, Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 18:31 (4470 days ago) @ David Turell

More wishful thinking aabout OOL. Simple sugar in space means life is ready to start. Foolishness:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829064835.htm

Origin of life: 4 branches?

by David Turell @, Friday, September 14, 2012, 16:25 (4454 days ago) @ David Turell

Studies in giant viruses suggest viruses were there at the beginning:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120913123520.htm

Origin of life; man-made cells

by David Turell @, Monday, October 15, 2012, 15:54 (4423 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Monday, October 15, 2012, 16:07

The research goes on: packing RNA into containing material induces some reactivity. In real time 3.6 billion years ago how did RNA appear and how did it get packed into other chemicals? And where did they come from on an inorganic chemistry Earth? Just-so chemistry to justify a grant.-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121014162906.htm-Second version:-http://phys.org/news/2012-10-early-earth-cells-life-packaged-rna.html

Origin of life; RNA cooperation

by David Turell @, Thursday, October 18, 2012, 15:18 (4420 days ago) @ David Turell

More wishful thinking in the lab. Intelligently mix up pieces of RNA and they can reassemble: -http://phys.org/news/2012-10-rna-ribozymes-cooperate-reassemble.html-How many convenient petri dishes were on ancient Earth? And how did ribozymes appear in the first place?

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