On 19/12/2024 05:17, MarkE wrote:

Wait...why has no-one done this? What better way to progress OoL
research? "Look, our little warm ponds have produced a population of
RNAs from 3 to 13 units long...we are on the road to life!" The
incentive is certainly there - peer accolades and grant funding would
flow in.

I can tell you why no-one is doing this and reporting the results.
Because it will not and does produce growing RNA polymers. It will yield
tar.

No? Then show me the polymers!

This *1996* paper is paywalled, but the abstract reports the production
of oligomers of up to *55* units, though the abstract is unclear whether
those are RNA or peptide oligomers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/381059a0

A subsequent paper in 2006 is also paywalled, but the abstract
explicitly reports the production of RNA oligomers of up to 40 to 50 units.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja061782k

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alias Ernest Major

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