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SELF SIMILARITY. “The core structure of the metabolic network is very similar across all organisms, which suggests an early origin during evolution.” https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1002/msb.20145351 View in LinkedIn

HUNTING THE ULTRALIGHT SNARK. “In this Letter we repeat the analysis of Ref. [64] by including the 35 new binary black holes reported by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration at high significance. We find the probability a scalar boson with masses in the range 1.3×10(−13) eV ≤ μs ≤ 2.7×10(−13) eV to be smaller than 0.01%.” https://lnkd.in/gnQbwGA View in LinkedIn

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. “This question has been sometimes heavily debated, backdropped with the vexing question of the origin of RNA and its sugar–phosphate backbone.” https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1002/msb.20145351 View in LinkedIn

“THE QUESTION of the origin of life is currently dominated by the quest of mechanisms explaining the emergence of self‐replicating and self‐organizing systems.” Systems biology has its roots in such questions. https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1002/msb.20145351 View in LinkedIn

ALSO BY PROFESSOR LUISI. “Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality (Columbia Series in Science and Religion, 2010), by Pier Luisi (Author), Zara Houshmand. A keen study of character, Luisi incorporates his own amusing observations into this fascinating dialogue, painting a very human portrait of some of our greatest and most intimidating thinkers.” https://lnkd.in/dnVKMMK View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR LUISI. “In 1985 Luisi founded the "Cortona Week", an international, interdisciplinary summer school, under the general title "Sciences and the Wholeness of Life" - targeted mostly for graduate students and young managers, with the aim of forming a new class of society leaders, aware of the new frontiers of science, and also of the ecology, ethics and spirituality of life.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Luisi View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR LUISI. “He is now retired, his official being residence in Tavira Portugal, his post address is still in Rome, via della Lungara 3, 00165 RM, which is the seat of the APS (Association for Social Promotion) Cortonafriends, of which he is the President. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Luisi View in LinkedIn

Pier Luigi Luisi (born 23 May 1938) graduated in chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and is an Italian Professor Emeritus from the ETHZ, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he worked as a scientist from 1970 till 2003 - as full professor in chemistry since 1980 - to move then to the university of Rome as Professor of Biochemistry, till 2015.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Luisi View in LinkedIn

ARTICLE TITLE. “Prebiotic metabolic networks? By Pier Luigi Luisi, from the Department of Biology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.’ https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1002/msb.20145351 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend focuses on a remarkably short article by an extraordinary man about how metabolic pathways evolved. These intricate, far from equilibrium reactions are laced together in highly improbable ways, exquisitely controlled, and perform in unison in ways we simply do not understand. View in LinkedIn