Tag: life definition
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Meteorites and the true evidence for life...
The discovery of tiny carbon-rich balls and tunnels inside a Martian meteorite has once again raised the possibility that the Red Planet was teeming with primitive life millions of years ago. The meteorite, which fell to Earth during the Stone Age, contains microscopic burrows and spheres that resemble the marks microorganisms leave when they eat…
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Viruses as a key to life philosophy...
Viruses are a weird thing. We are afraid of them, but we try to use them as cure for cancer [1]. They seem to challenge the "central dogma" of modern biology, i.e. the movement of information from the DNA to RNA: transfering information from RNA to DNA was found to be routine in retroviruses (such as…
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