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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Creb Cycle Is What's Powering Us
The creb cycle was discovered in the 19 thirties by hans krebs. It became dusty text book by chemistry a. People have to learn it, and don't want to know and forget it as soon as they can. But in the sixties there was a really funky discovery that some bacteria living in deep sea hydrothermal vents do the creb cycle backwards. So this is the reverse creb cyce, and it's basically turning gases into the molecules of life. We start with hydrogen and c o two. And what do we get? We get these creb cycle intermediates. Almost all of them forming under a fairly simple set of conditions.
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