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Artificial molecule evolves in the lab
New Scientist ^ | January 8, 2009 | Ewen Callaway

Posted on 01/09/2009 10:46:53 AM PST by Coyoteman

A new molecule that performs the essential function of life - self-replication - could shed light on the origin of all living things.

If that wasn't enough, the laboratory-born ribonucleic acid (RNA) strand evolves in a test tube to double itself ever more swiftly.

"Obviously what we're trying to do is make a biology," says Gerald Joyce, a biochemist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He hopes to imbue his team's molecule with all the fundamental properties of life: self-replication, evolution, and function.

Joyce and colleague Tracey Lincoln made their chemical out of RNA because most researchers think early life stored information in this sister molecule to DNA. And unlike the stuff of our genomes, RNA molecules can catalyse chemical reactions.

"We're trying to jump in at the last signpost we have back there in the early history of life," Joyce says.

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(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: artificial; creation; godsgravesglyphs; origins; rna
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1 posted on 01/09/2009 10:46:54 AM PST by Coyoteman
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To: Coyoteman

clearly the important facts are being left out.


2 posted on 01/09/2009 10:48:22 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: Coyoteman
evolves in a test tube to double itself ever more swiftly.

I was making bread the other day and after I added the yeast, my dough evolved very swiftly.

3 posted on 01/09/2009 10:50:26 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Coyoteman

Immediately the ACLU files suit to give it legal standing and benefits.


4 posted on 01/09/2009 10:51:09 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: Coyoteman

bfltr


5 posted on 01/09/2009 10:51:59 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Coyoteman

This is like taking a box of Betty Crocker cake mix, adding water, and saying Whoa I created a cake.


6 posted on 01/09/2009 10:56:33 AM PST by UglyinLA
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To: Coyoteman

After the efforts of thousands of scientists all over the world involving millions of man-hours of dedicated research using billions of dollars worth of the latest hi-tech biogen equipment, a primitive RNA molecule, based on existing RNA molecules, has been synthesized, proving once and for all that no intelligence is necessary for life to have started abiogenically.


7 posted on 01/09/2009 10:58:02 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Coyoteman

Very interesting.


8 posted on 01/09/2009 10:59:36 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!


9 posted on 01/09/2009 11:00:52 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: metmom

Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!


10 posted on 01/09/2009 11:01:08 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Fichori

Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!


11 posted on 01/09/2009 11:01:21 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: CottShop

Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!


12 posted on 01/09/2009 11:01:37 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: labette

Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!


13 posted on 01/09/2009 11:01:57 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor

You could ping all of those folks in a single post. Put all the names in the “To” box separated by “;” — or are you deliberately spamming the thread?


14 posted on 01/09/2009 11:03:27 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

I can’t stand these so-called scientists with absolutely no background in theology attempting to explain the origins of life...


15 posted on 01/09/2009 11:04:02 AM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Westbrook
"After the efforts of thousands of scientists all over the world involving millions of man-hours of dedicated research using billions of dollars worth of the latest hi-tech biogen equipment, a primitive RNA molecule, based on existing RNA molecules, has been synthesized, proving once and for all that no intelligence is necessary for life to have started abiogenically."

Are you questioning the intelligence of those millions of "scientists?"

16 posted on 01/09/2009 11:04:38 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Coyoteman

I believe in treating people as individuals, not as countless vermin.


17 posted on 01/09/2009 11:06:17 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Coyoteman

I’m pretty sure he’s on your side; he’s inviting freeper creationists to come and discuss.


18 posted on 01/09/2009 11:06:44 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: editor-surveyor; Westbrook
I took it as a sarcastic dig...
19 posted on 01/09/2009 11:10:25 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: editor-surveyor
>Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!
>Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!
>Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!
>Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!
>Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!

>>I believe in treating people as individuals, not as countless vermin

Individuals?
You mean like how you gave them
each their own message?

(You didn't even
alter the number of bangs
after each text line!)

20 posted on 01/09/2009 11:11:50 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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