Month: September 2022

SO ENDS this two weekends on the Great Unconformity. Admittedly, the biblical push for a Great Flood interpretation has polarized the debate, where the flood needed a lot of water in a short time. " "And the Cambrian Explosion camp resolutely dug in their heels to new ideas, having built careers on the convoluted explanations of an improbable sudden emergence of diversity with no antecedent history. And so we are left with the grinding of a glacial paradigm shift emerging on this massively important topic. https://lnkd.in/d5T7qzX View in LinkedIn

NANOBACTERIA. "Recent evidence suggests a role for nanobacteria in a growing number of human diseases, including renal stone formation, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. This large body of research studies promotes the view that nanobacteria are not only alive but that they are associated with disease pathogenesis." https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

EARLY DAYS. "It is still unclear whether they represent novel life forms, overlooked nanometer-size bacteria, or some other primitive self-replicating microorganisms." https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

ANALOGS. "Surprisingly, some of the CaCO3 structures were remarkably similar to cells undergoing binary fission and budding. Symmetrical division forms with an internal septum were frequently observed as well as structures resembling divisions occurring simultaneously in vesicular forms." https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

OBSERVATION. "We observed NLP in the culture of every healthy human serum tested (n = 20), an observation in line with another study that reported that 90–100% of animal sera from cattle, goats, cats, and dogs gave similar nanoparticles. Thus, NLP formation would appear to be unrelated to pathogenesis." (NLP = Nanobacteria-like-particles). https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

"NANOBACTERIA-LIKE PARTICLES obtained from human blood are able to withstand high doses of γ-irradiation up to 30 kGy, and no bacterial DNA is found by performing broad-range PCR amplifications." https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

PRIONS ALSO WITHSTAND RADIATION. "The scrapie agent had been found to be extremely resistant to inactivation by UV and ionizing radiation, as was later shown for the CJD agent." https://lnkd.in/dbGy5FS View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS. "Collectively, our results provide a more plausible abiotic explanation for the unusual properties of purported nanobacteria." https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

"EARLY-EARTH molecular systems are of interest due to their relatively simple replication mechanisms, gene multiplicity, and the blurring of the genotype-phenotype boundary." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

IN SILICO CHEMISTRY. "The richness of biological life has never been replicated in our artificial models of evolution.' He gave four rather abstract requirements for systems to display open-ended evolution, where entities of increasing complexity and diversity are produced without limit.” https://lnkd.in/dXZQRVS View in LinkedIn