Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes(tus.ac.jp)

121 points by rustoo 9 months ago | 40 comments

A new way Ebola replicates(nouvelles.umontreal.ca)

45 points by gmays 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Conundrum of Life's Origin(nautil.us)

57 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 39 comments

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"(nouvelles.umontreal.ca)

66 points by gmays 4 months ago | 5 comments

Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens(nationalgeographic.com)

68 points by BaudouinVH 5 months ago | 96 comments

Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?(arxiv.org)

416 points by harscoat 2 years ago | 347 comments

arXiv paper by Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli arguing that the emergence of life is an expected phase transition, using autocatalytic sets and the theory of the adjacent possible.