{"id":174240,"date":"2023-10-15T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/assembly-theory-puts-chemistry-centre-stage-to-explain-molecular-complexity-and-lifes-origins"},"modified":"2023-10-15T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:22:26","slug":"assembly-theory-puts-chemistry-centre-stage-to-explain-molecular-complexity-and-lifes-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/assembly-theory-puts-chemistry-centre-stage-to-explain-molecular-complexity-and-lifes-origins","title":{"rendered":"Assembly theory puts chemistry centre stage to explain molecular complexity and life\u2019s origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/assembly-theory-puts-chemistry-centre-stage-to-explain-molecular-complexity-and-lifes-origins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Could the theory be wrong? Possibly. That is the point and the case for all theories,\u2019 says Cronin. \u2018But perhaps it is less wrong than our current understanding and it will help us understand the link between physics and biology through chemistry. We have to try and we think we are onto something.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Sharma <em>et al<\/em>,<em> Nature.<\/em>, 2023, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-023-06600-9\">10.1038\/s41586-023\u201306600-9<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Could the theory be wrong? Possibly. That is the point and the case for all theories,\u2019 says Cronin. \u2018But perhaps it is less wrong than our current understanding and it will help us understand the link between physics and biology through chemistry. We have to try and we think we are onto something.\u2019 A Sharma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}