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Blogging on Peer-Reviewed ResearchWow am I out of the loop! Last I heard about the origins of life (abiogenesis) was in high school when we were discussing Manfred Eigen's Hypercycle. It all seemed really theoretical at the time and very remote from any real chemistry. And now I come across this fantastic video on PZ Myers' Pharyngula:



So basically, micelles can form the containers in which some early form of PCR might have been going on at places with convection such as hydrothermal vents. Brilliant and very plausible. I love to learn about stuff like this! These ten minutes were worth more than a whole lecture. Fantastic!
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This is the work of Howard Hughes investigator Jack Szostak. Here are some links to some of his recent paprs:
Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell (Nature)
An Expanded Set of Amino Acid Analogs for the Ribosomal Translation of Unnatural Peptides ( PLoS One)
Enzymatic synthesis of DNA on glycerol nucleic acid templates without stable duplex formation between product and template (PNAS)
Selection and evolution of enzymes from a partially randomized non-catalytic scaffold (Nature)
Structural Insights into the Evolution of a Non-Biological Protein: Importance of Surface Residues in Protein Fold Optimization ( PLoS One)
Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexity (PNAS)
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