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FiveGoodMen

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3. Reading the snippets above I thought this was a God-Did-It article
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 06:23 PM
Oct 2013
Here's two other paragraphs from the link:

Stano reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie that many of these liposomes trapped some molecules of the assembly. But remarkably, five in every 1,000 such liposomes had all 83 of the molecules needed to produce a protein. These liposomes produced large amount of GFP and glowed green under a microscope.
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Stano and his colleagues do not yet understand why this happened. It may yet be a random process that a better statistical model will explain. It may be that these particular molecules are suited to this kind of self-organisation because they are already highly evolved. An important next step is to see if similar, but less complex, molecules are also capable of this feat.


So even though the statistical model says this should never happen, it happened right in front of them.

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