Tag: Stairway to Life
Could Blind Forces Build a Self-Replicating Molecule?
Rob Stadler and Eric Anderson examine a recent paper on the origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.”
An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing
What about reports of a radiotrophic fungus near the Chernobyl nuclear accident that can feed off radiation?
The Stairway to Life Is Really a Cliff
Many of the “stairway steps” that have to be mounted for chemistry to become biology must, very inconveniently, happen all at once.