Tag: lipids
New Animated Video: Cell Membranes by Natural Processes Alone?
Cell membranes are essential for life because they actively maintain homeostasis, providing a consistent environment inside the cell.
Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?
Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.
Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”
This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.
New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around.
James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Synthesis of the Building Blocks
“The analogy that comes to mind is a golfer, who having played a ball through an 18-hole course, assumed the ball could also play the course in his absence.”