Life on Earth Was Never Supposed to Happen! Nick Lane
A world-leading origin-of-life biochemist says life may not be a thing—but a process driven by energy gradients—and the Krebs cycle can run in reverse to build life.
If that’s true, it rewrites how we think about life, cancer, and even where life begins in the universe.
Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL known for his work on the origin of life and cellular energy. We cover: why defining life may be the wrong question, how the Krebs cycle can run backward to create biomass, what happens when cellular energy systems fail in cancer, why hydrothermal vents may have jump-started life, and how proton gradients—not genes—may be the real engine of biology.
Life is basically burning rocket fuel to stay alive.
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