A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging - Quanta Magazine

The biochemist Nick Lane thinks life first evolved in hydrothermal vents where precursors of metabolism appeared before genetic information. His ideas could lead us to think differently about aging and cancer.

Your book argues that the flow of energy and matter structures the evolution of life and is how metabolism conjures genes into existence. Whats the most compelling reason to think metabolism, not gen… [+3518 chars]

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