Chemists use the blockchain to simulate over 4 billion chemical reactions essential to the origins of life

“If you asked me two years ago, I’d be thinking we’d need years for this type of work”

26-Jan-2024 - Cryptocurrency is usually “mined” through the blockchain by asking a computer to perform a complicated mathematical problem in exchange for tokens of cryptocurrency. But in research appearing in the journal Chem on January 24, a team of chemists have repurposed this process, asking computers to ...

Biochemical 'fossil' shows how life may have emerged without phosphate

03-Mar-2017 - One major mystery about life's origin is how phosphate became an essential building block of genetic and metabolic machinery in cells, given its poor accessibility on early Earth. In a study published on March 9 in the journal Cell, researchers used systems biology approaches to tackle this ...