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From: Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Show me the polymers!
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:20:38 +0000
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On 19/12/2024 05:17, MarkE wrote:
> 
> Wait...why has no-one done this? What better way to progress OoL 
> research? "Look, our little warm ponds have produced a population of 
> RNAs from 3 to 13 units long...we are on the road to life!" The 
> incentive is certainly there - peer accolades and grant funding would 
> flow in.
> 
> I can tell you why no-one is doing this and reporting the results. 
> Because it will not and does produce growing RNA polymers. It will yield 
> tar.
> 
> No? Then show me the polymers!
> 

This *1996* paper is paywalled, but the abstract reports the production 
of oligomers of up to *55* units, though the abstract is unclear whether 
those are RNA or peptide oligomers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/381059a0

A subsequent paper in 2006 is also paywalled, but the abstract 
explicitly reports the production of RNA oligomers of up to 40 to 50 units.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja061782k

-- 
alias Ernest Major