Loren Williams @lorendw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The amazing world of protein function, from Kavita's paper. 010
Loren Williams @lorendw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025RNA World, help. 1) Chicken & Egg: Multiple types of complex polymers (RNA and protein) cannot arise simultaneously. 2) Extant reflects ancient: extant functions of RNA are direct reflections of prebiotic behaviors. 3) Parsimony. The RNA world is simple. A simple model is a good model. Is that it? 010
Loren Williams @lorendw.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My second ever Bluesky post: Another part of the work of my wonderful graduate student Kavita Matange (post doc at CSHL) has come out here (open access). pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....pubs.acs.orgBiological Polymers: Evolution, Function, and SignificanceConspectusA holistic description of biopolymers and their evolutionary origins will contribute to our understanding of biochemistry, biology, the origins of life, and signatures of life outside our pl... 033
Loren Williams @lorendw.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I apologize that that paper is behind a paywall. You can access it free here: williams.chemistry.gatech.edu/publications...williams.chemistry.gatech.edu 000
Loren Williams @lorendw.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My first ever Bluesky post: Some of the work of my wonderful graduate student Kavita Matange (now a post doc at CSHL) has just come out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comEvolution of complex chemical mixtures reveals combinatorial compression and population synchronicity - Nature ChemistryOrigins-of-life research has focused on specific chemical reactions that might lead to biological molecules. Now an experimental model of chemical evolution based on oscillating water activity has bee... 010
