Re: Show me the polymers!

On 19/12/2024 05:17, MarkE wrote:

 Wait...why has no-one done this? What better way to progress OoL research? "Look, our little warm ponds have produced a population of RNAs from 3 to 13 units long...we are on the road to life!" The incentive is certainly there - peer accolades and grant funding would flow in.
 I can tell you why no-one is doing this and reporting the results. Because it will not and does produce growing RNA polymers. It will yield tar.
 No? Then show me the polymers!
 

This *1996* paper is paywalled, but the abstract reports the production of oligomers of up to *55* units, though the abstract is unclear whether those are RNA or peptide oligomers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/381059a0
A subsequent paper in 2006 is also paywalled, but the abstract explicitly reports the production of RNA oligomers of up to 40 to 50 units.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja061782k
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alias Ernest Major