Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak
Big Brains
The Fundamental Puzzle of the Origin of Life
In modern cells, you have this really complicated biochemistry where you start with information stored in DNA. Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA. The building blocks of life. You transfer it to RNA and then you translate it to proteins. Every part of that system depends on every other part. It was always a puzzle as to how such a self-referential system could get started. A DNA strand like me is a blueprint for building a living faith. But in the beginning, what you need is something simple. In the breaks who came from the realization that RNA can actually do what DNA does because carries information in its sequence of letters. And the big surprise was that
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