Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How life started on Earth is a great mystery. One of the biggest questions is what kick-started the process. Some speculate that life sprung out of a primordial soup of churning organic chemicals. There appears to be a very pivotal line between complex chemistry and the evolution of life itself. The problem is that we understand so little about this time or the process itself that it is difficult to know exactly what happened.
Now a team of researchers have been able to conduct experiments that seem to show that RNA is capable of self-replicating and evolving while working as a collective. Let's dive in and find out more.
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newscientist.com/article/mg21528795-500-dna-could-have-existed-long-before-life-itself
nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29113-x
sciencealert.com/scientists-have-designed-their-own-evolving-rna-soup-for-the-first-time
technologynetworks.com/genomics/lists/what-are-the-key-differences-between-dna-and-rna-296719
https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/new-study-brings-scientists-closer-origin-rna
How life started on Earth is a great mystery. One of the biggest questions is what kick-started the process. Some speculate that life sprung out of a primordial soup of churning organic chemicals. There appears to be a very pivotal line between complex chemistry and the evolution of life itself. The problem is that we understand so little about this time or the process itself that it is difficult to know exactly what happened.
Now a team of researchers have been able to conduct experiments that seem to show that RNA is capable of self-replicating and evolving while working as a collective. Let's dive in and find out more.
Please consider supporting this channel through:
patreon.com/seethepattern
paypal.me/seethepattern
Merchandise Available:
shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/see-the-pattern
Follow me on:
facebook.com/SeethePattern
twitter.com/PatternSeethe
References:
newscientist.com/article/mg21528795-500-dna-could-have-existed-long-before-life-itself
nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29113-x
sciencealert.com/scientists-have-designed-their-own-evolving-rna-soup-for-the-first-time
technologynetworks.com/genomics/lists/what-are-the-key-differences-between-dna-and-rna-296719
https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/new-study-brings-scientists-closer-origin-rna
