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Origins of Life
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak seeks to build primitive cells
http://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/hms_episode18_0.mp3
Jack Szostak, an HMS professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work he completed in the 1980s on telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes. But he hasn’t worked on telomeres in years. In fact, he completely shifted fields in the early 1990s. Now he’s working to build primitive cells in the laboratory. Learn more about Szostak in the Spring 2012 issue of Harvard Medicine magazine.
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Thermodynamics of origin of life: Why is there life?
The transition between the animate and inanimate matter is a slow. He was predestined by the action of "thermodynamic principle of the substance stability" which describes the forward and backward linkages at the transmission of information between structural hierarchies during the chemical and biological evolution.
http://gladyshevevolution.wordpress.com/
See: Thermodynamics and the emergence of life.
The phenomena of life can be explained on the basis of quasi-equilibrium hierarchical thermodynamics of dynamic systems which stands at the solid foundation of thermodynamics of JW Gibbs. Theory can be constructed without using the concept of dissipative structures of I. Prigogine and his ideas about negentropy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYr1G5TZO50
From the point of view of thermodynamics, the phenomenon of life is defined as: "Life is the process the existence of the constantly renewed polyhierarchical structures during the cycle of transformation of labile chemical substances in the presence of liquid water on the planet."
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