http://www.nature.com/news/enzymes-grow-artificial-dna-1.10487
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/20/artificial_dna_evolves_by_itself/
Last few weeks ( http://gbatemp.net/topic/324058-new-fossil-points-to-another-line-of-hominins/ ) and probably even years are almost enough to make me regret sidelining biology in favour of the other two. Although you would never catch me saying otherwise go science.
To my eye it is not quite a demonstration of abiogenesis* (although the people simulating early earth conditions and working from there are doing quite well and have been for a while) but I imagine that is where they will head next.
*the study of how life might have arisen in the first place/"from the ooze" as opposed to evolution which is the study of how the primitive life forms scaled up/sideways to what we see today and what we might see tomorrow given certain conditions.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/20/artificial_dna_evolves_by_itself/
Last few weeks ( http://gbatemp.net/topic/324058-new-fossil-points-to-another-line-of-hominins/ ) and probably even years are almost enough to make me regret sidelining biology in favour of the other two. Although you would never catch me saying otherwise go science.
To my eye it is not quite a demonstration of abiogenesis* (although the people simulating early earth conditions and working from there are doing quite well and have been for a while) but I imagine that is where they will head next.
*the study of how life might have arisen in the first place/"from the ooze" as opposed to evolution which is the study of how the primitive life forms scaled up/sideways to what we see today and what we might see tomorrow given certain conditions.