208.09.10. Latest news on the Origin of Life

Wired Science is right on time with some new developments on the Origin of Life– they have a crew of reporters watching closely the latest from a major meeting on the origin of life.

The latest on simple protocells assembled in the lab of Jack Szostak, a bottom-up experimental approach: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html.

And more on a complexity-and-computation approach, which tackles chemical evolution, or pre-evolution, by Martin Nowak and Hisashi Ohtsuki: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/before-evolutio.html.

Cool!