The Fruit Flies Are Great Fun to Watch, These Fruit Lit.

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As things run down over time, it gets harder and harder to do both. It was discovered years ago that were we wo're seeing reverse flux through parts of the creb cycle. The work that i've been doing on this is to do with the fruit flies. How well they grow depends on how good their respiration is. If they respire well, then the cycle goes turning along, and everything's hunky dory. And there they're capable of providing enough energy that they need to to power everything to to do their courtship dancers. They're great fun to watch, these tes fruit lit.

The origin of life here on Earth was an important and fascinating event, but it was also a long time ago and hasn’t left many pieces of direct evidence concerning what actually happened. One set of clues we have comes from processes in current living organisms, especially those processes that seem extremely common. The Krebs cycle, the sequence of reactions that functions as a pathway for energy distribution in aerobic organisms, is such an example. I talk with biochemist about the importance of the Krebs cycle to contemporary biology, as well as its possible significance in understanding the origin of life.

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Nick Lane received his PhD from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. He is currently a professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London. He was a founding member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research, and is Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Life’s Origin and Evolution. He was awarded the 2009 UCL Provost’s Venture Research Prize, the 2011 BMC Research Award for Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution, the 2015 Biochemical Society Award, and the 2016 Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture. His new book is Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death.

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