Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms

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Despite the striking parallels between these systems in terms of the design logic, these attenuation systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Source
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Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

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As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Source
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