Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!unixhub!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!cmgm.stanford.edu!vangeldr From: vangeldr@cmgm.stanford.edu (Russ Van Gelder) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Biogenesis Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 21:33:25 GMT References: <733@gate.oxy.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 21 Ozymandias@oxy.edu writes: >I am presently a Senior Marine Bio major at Oxy, and I am required to give a >talk concerning recent developments in biotechnology, and I was wondering if >anyone out there knew of some good sources for topics such as: Biogenesis, >primordial soup, insta-life (just add water), etc. If you could please help me >out, I just MIGHT graduate! >Pondering my belly-button a bit TOO hard these days, I am: You might want to look up some of the work of Jack Szostak. He has been using some pretty nifty technology (specifically engineered and selected ribozymes - catalytic RNAs) to try to generate an RNA-based in vitro replication system which would presumably evolve. Russ (vangeldr@cmgm.stanford.edu)