Ozymandias@oxy.edu (04/14/91)
I am presently a Senior Marine Bio major at Oxy, and I am required to give a talk concerning recent developments in biotechnology, and I was wondering if anyone out there knew of some good sources for topics such as: Biogenesis, primordial soup, insta-life (just add water), etc. If you could please help me out, I just MIGHT graduate! Pondering my belly-button a bit TOO hard these days, I am: Ozymandias
vangeldr@cmgm.stanford.edu (Russ Van Gelder) (04/15/91)
Ozymandias@oxy.edu writes: >I am presently a Senior Marine Bio major at Oxy, and I am required to give a >talk concerning recent developments in biotechnology, and I was wondering if >anyone out there knew of some good sources for topics such as: Biogenesis, >primordial soup, insta-life (just add water), etc. If you could please help me >out, I just MIGHT graduate! >Pondering my belly-button a bit TOO hard these days, I am: You might want to look up some of the work of Jack Szostak. He has been using some pretty nifty technology (specifically engineered and selected ribozymes - catalytic RNAs) to try to generate an RNA-based in vitro replication system which would presumably evolve. Russ (vangeldr@cmgm.stanford.edu)