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Meta comment first: Man, I hate SEO spam and I long for more diversity in powerful search engines (one's tailored for scientific research, some tailored to reli
by tepitoperrito 4y ago
Meta comment first: Man, I hate SEO spam and I long for more diversity in powerful search engines (one's tailored for scientific research, some tailored to religious scholarship, etc). Because searching "abiogenisis facing theoretical problems" is like 90% theological bent spam that would fail scientific rigor (I am not agnostic or atheist either).
This is what I found on the first page of google that I felt like reading the abstract for if anyone's curious:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58060-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58060-0
- eternalban 4y agoThanks for the link. Interesting. (He did lose me there at the end with metaverse speculations.)
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoVery interesting paper! An alternative explanation would be that RNA has not been assembled "naturally" but has been assembled by a life form (cf chaperone proteins, etc) The questions is then what was this hypothetical proto lifeform made of (what are the minimum cell requirements for assembling custom RNA) and how did this chaperone proteins formed if they were not produced by RNA. Maybe they are much more likely to form randomly than RNA itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)#:~:text=In%20molecular%20biology%2C%20molecular%20chaperones,disassembly%20of%20other%20macromolecular%20structures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)#:~:text=In.... see other related biotechnologies, such as CRISPR-cas9. Also as a reminder that proteins are not just subsets of RNA/DNA, there are some proteins in the cell that are much larger than RNA itself.