Tuesday, 27 January, 2015

Labyrinths as crucibles of life

The origin of life

Water-filled micropores in hot rock may have acted as the nurseries in which life on Earth began. An LMU team has now shown that temperature gradients in pore systems promote the cyclical replication and emergence of nucleic acids. more...

Press information LMU (english)
Presseinformation der LMU (deutsch)
Publication "Heat flux across an open pore enables the continuous replication and selection of oligonucleotides towards increasing length"