Nick Lane Quotes
b. 1967
Nick Lane (born 1967) is a British biochemist and writer. He is a professor in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London.
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From around the mid 1990s, researchers discovered that apoptosis is... governed... by the mitochondria. ...[T]he failure to commit apoptosis is the root cause of cancer.
Power, Sex, Suicide (2005)
Different species have transferred different genes to the nucleus, but all species with mitochondria have... retained... the same core contingent of mitochondrial genes.
Power, Sex, Suicide (2005)
I read some of those ideas years ago, Graham Cairns-Smith, and thought it was thrilling. Over recent years I don't really see the need for a kind of genetic intermediary between an RNA level of genetic replication and some other form of replicator.
Nick Lane (2021)
Biochemistry became the study of how... simple molecules were interconnected one into another. ...The [simple] molecules ...containing ...up to about twenty carbons, but most ...have fewer than ten.
Transformer (2022)
It would be a little disappointing if we didn't even find bacteria in our own solar system. I would be rather surprised to find what I would describe as large, morphologically complex life. ...It only arose once on earth.
Nick Lane (2021)