Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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How to Make a Protein in a Minute?
There's 13 million inside one cell that you can't even see the cell e. But at the same time, if you go down to the level of atoms, then these are massive molecular machines with 60 or 70 moving parts. So ther are extraordinary things. And these are the real problems for the origin of life that have barely been touched on or addressed yet. We've got a reactor, which is this big at atmospheric pressure in a glass jar. We're talking about simulating reactions that should have been going on across the sea floor.
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