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    From Pro Plyd@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 22:56:53 2025
    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/a-step-toward-solving-central-mystery-of-life-on-earth/

    It is the ultimate mystery of biology: How did
    life begin?

    A team of Harvard scientists has brought us
    closer to an answer by creating artificial
    cell-like chemical systems that simulate
    metabolism, reproduction, and evolution — the
    essential features of life. The results were
    published recently in the Proceedings of the
    National Academy of Sciences.

    “This is the first time, as far as I know, that
    anybody has done anything like this — generate
    a structure that has the properties of life
    from something, which is completely homogeneous
    at the chemical level and devoid of any
    similarity to natural life,” said Juan
    Pérez-Mercader, a senior research fellow in the
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and
    the Origins of Life Initiative, the senior
    author of the study.
    ...


    https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2412514122
    Self-reproduction as an autonomous process
    of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic,
    artificial and synthetic cells

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  • From Pro Plyd@21:1/5 to Dale on Sat Jul 26 22:50:38 2025
    Dale wrote:
    On 7/25/2025 2:50 AM, Dale wrote:
    On 7/25/2025 12:56 AM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    the
    essential features of life

    consciousness ?

    protons, neutrons, and electrons all socialize with each other, perhaps
    not in all in a positive way ? but aren't conscious ?

    As far as socializing is concerned, the neutrons are
    neutral on it whil the protons are for it and electrons
    are all against it.

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 27 10:39:31 2025
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:50:38 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by Pro Plyd
    <[email protected]d>:

    Dale wrote:
    On 7/25/2025 2:50 AM, Dale wrote:
    On 7/25/2025 12:56 AM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    the
    essential features of life

    consciousness ?

    protons, neutrons, and electrons all socialize with each other, perhaps
    not in all in a positive way ? but aren't conscious ?

    As far as socializing is concerned, the neutrons are
    neutral on it whil the protons are for it and electrons
    are all against it.

    Channeling Oddball the tank commander...

    "Again with the negative vibes, Moriarty!"

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 27 10:40:34 2025
    On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 08:28:38 -0500, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by RonO <[email protected]>:

    On 7/27/2025 12:20 AM, Dale wrote:
    On 7/27/2025 12:50 AM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    Dale wrote:
    On 7/25/2025 2:50 AM, Dale wrote:
    On 7/25/2025 12:56 AM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    the
    essential features of life

    consciousness ?



    protons, neutrons, and electrons all socialize with each other,
    perhaps not in all in a positive way ? but aren't conscious ?



    As far as socializing is concerned, the neutrons are
    neutral on it whil the protons are for it and electrons
    are all against it.


    electrons elect protons or neutrons ?

    Neither, but Free Mesons are routinely elected.

    <Groan> Good one! ;-)

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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