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"Immortal Molecule" Evolves — How Close To Synthetic Life?

Posted by timothy on from the non-instant-soup dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word of ongoing work at Scripps Research Institute: "Can life arise from nothing but a chaotic assortment of basic molecules? The answer is a lot closer following a series of ingenious experiments that have shown evolution at work in non-living molecules."

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  1. No by rrohbeck · · Score: 4, Funny

    It can't be true since God didn't make it. Obviously :)

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  2. Re:not as close as this first post by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    please evolve

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  3. Re:what is a living molecule? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are these listed items AND'd together or OR'd?

    Yes.

  4. Re:Computational Beauty of Nature by Snarf+You · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damnit, I made a typo. Now I'm going to hell.

    I think FSM would have forgiven you for the typo...

    You should see how livid one I was interacting with became!

    ...but that sentence was just blasphemous.

  5. Re:what is a living molecule? by Hojima · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure. Anything with nipples can live.

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  6. Re:what is a living molecule? by nschubach · · Score: 3, Funny

    We are organized here, reproducing asexually (it's a work in progress), responding to posts...

    I'm registered. therefore I am.

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