The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death | Nick Lane | Talks at Google
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- čas přidán 5. 10. 2023
- Professor and author Nick Lane discusses his new book Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death, which tells the story of our planet with the story of our cells-what makes us the way we are, and how it connects us to the origin of life.
Get the book here: goo.gle/3EhNkOr
For more information on Nick, please visit nick-lane.net/.
Nick Lane is a professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College London and an award-winning author of five books. He is the coordinator of UCL’s Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE) and lives in London, England.
Moderated by Eric Smith.
Wonderful speaker and so articulate to explain complex science
Brilliant guest and interviewer, thoroughly recommend nicks other books as well
Very interesting guy. Just bought his new book on Audible. Look forward to listening to it.
Nick Lane is a GOAT ✨️🔥🙏💯
Fascinating! ❤
I was looking for so much from this talk. Got very little about the scope of the new book and salient highlights. 😢
Not related to this video, asking Google. Have you removed re:work English version of site or why I only see the Japanesse version? Please, answer 🙏 thanks!
Could we make atp batteries?
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Information+highly complex information-specified constructed matter ( the Word and the Flesh) is at the center of life.
Fascinating how a boring piece of undergraduate biochemistry can be an exciting topic to duscuss.
The biochemistry of bacteria is totally different to our cells. The bonds in carbon builds chains which is quite unique. Is silicon used in computing? Is xenon used in making computer chips? Respiration involves hydrogen and electrons but forget the details.
Anaethetics and pain killers interesting topic.
Arguably even more important are the practical connotations for metabolism and our own health today. Is the Krebs cycle at the heart of metabolism because life was forced into existence that way, by thermodynamics - fate! - or was this chemistry invented later by genes, just a trivial outcome of information systems that could be rewired, if we are smart enough? Is the difference between ageing and disease an tractable outcome of metabolism, written into cells from the very origin of lite, or a question for gene editing and synthetic biology to come? That in turn boils down to genes first or metabolism first? The thrust of this book is that energy is primal - energy flow shapes genetic information. I will argue that the structure of metabolism was set in stone (perhaps literally in deep-sea rocky vents) from the beginning.
Among the other things I learned from this book are the importance of Otto Warburg, why men get mitochondrial diseases more than women do (there is some speculative component here), why respiration is suppressed with age, why the brain prefers to burn glucose, what it might mean to think of cancer as "growth-based" rather than genes-based, and most of all the importance of the Krebs cycle and reverse Krebs cycle for a broader array of biological questions. The final section considers why chloroform seems to rob fruit flies of their "consciousness."
I can't pretend to evaluate the more controversial claims of the author, but at the very least I learned a great deal reading this book and it has stimulated my interest in the topic areas more generally.
Life is the information driven transformation of energetic molecules (or atoms as in proton gradient driven hydrothermal vents or direct energy absorption by chlorophyll,) to simpler ones and the use of thst energy to take simpler molecules into highly highly specific new utterly complex systems of molecules which direct the transformation of other molecules.
Where does highly complex digital base 4 unidirectionally read, uni-stranded information come from?
Only a Superintelligence is capable of imagining and building the first 2 genomes, and, simultaneously, all the necessary machinery, all in a lipid bilayer.
Poorly moderated. People who work at Google have no business engaging in public discussion (especially when they haven't a clue about the subject matter). They should stick to what they're good at - making money and a brand of themselves.
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Difficult to keep comments respectful with this post
Meant for user not the video. The video is core. In seeking the truth we can end down a rabbit hole. Many a professional spends his or her life specializing in a field which is a blind alley.
The hydrogen pump, ATP. Must read about the Cambrian explosion.
The beginning of life fascinating. This is what gets people hooked along with the noble peace prize in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Rewiring of metabolism, why do we have exons? So many questions….. Don’t we have switches in the cell growth cycle and this is different in cancer.
Why does arthritis feel more pronounced in cold weather? Why is pain relieved by a hot compress? I love the humble comment that he hates preaching to people.
Ugh, I didn't find the discussion interesting. Nick's books are much better, and just listening to him alone is much better. Let him organize the talk himself, rather than this interview style.
There is a force called the rolling force that powers everything and keeps everything in motion. This force eventually breaks thru your luminous body causing physical death. You then transfer into another frequency.
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Nonsense
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Can you show me the experimental data proving this please.
It would be ironic and likely that the secret of life’s emergence is hidden in the most boring biology lesson, instead of the excitement of praise and worship of God. However, I did not find the Krebs cycle that boring, it was the classification stuff I found intolerable. And, we can thank the Lord for the Krebs cycle. The Lord is in the details, not the bloody devil.