The Research Institute at the Goetheanum was founded a hundred years ago, prompted by the first experiments in search of a ‘reagent’ that can make life visible.
A new study shows that a diamidophosphate or DAP, a simple compound that possibly existed on Earth prior to life’s occurrence, could have ‘chemically knitted together tiny DNA building blocks’ into strands of primordial DNA.
For the first time, human-made objects have outweighed all life on Earth as it doubles in number this year, according to the study published in Nature.