The handedness of life - with Jack Szostak

Many molecules are chiral, which means they have two possible forms that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other, just like your left and right hand. But in the amino acids and sugars that make up living things, we find only one of these forms -- and young chemist Abigail Hubbard wants to know why. She's keen to pick Jack Szostak's brain on the source of this 'homochirality', a subject close to Jack's own research into the origin of life on earth.

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[happinesson]

collaboration of research of interest could lead to a breakthrough!

[agapitoflores001]

At first I read it as the hardness of life. Haha..Anyway I like the video.

[Tulip12ILY]

this really helped me on my research thanks!

[iTube4ux]

Why did she wear topless? I was distracted all the video.

[zenithar6666]

im glad you can thik for youself instead of merely swallowing teh party line, thanks for the info!

[benthemiester]

@zenithar6666 The first time I heard this argument was from an interview with Charles Thaxton. It made perfect sense, and yet this is one of the least spoken about on the subject of OOL/ origin of life, and I am not anti science.

I'm just pro critical thinking.

[benthemiester]

@5tonyvvvv Yeah I agree, Even Szostac has short video on the subject of handedness but its not very popular among some crowds. At least he is honest enough to bring it up when so many others ignore this problem.

[zenithar6666]

good point about the negative reactions! I just read..RNA world: a critique, and that was the jist of their very well thought out argument.

[zenithar6666]

very good point, thsi seesm a real issue

[TheScienceFoundation]

@5tonyvvvv 'This engineered RNA" would break down do to the unstable conditions of it

I've come to realize that you have no idea what you're copying and pasting. Not understanding micelle membrane permeation is still not an argument.