Schlagwort: life
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The cult of grain or sowing and reaping or life and death
Ancient mystery cults have left traces in the New Testament. Theologian Prof Dr Peter Wick from Ruhr University Bochum has researched which ones. Elements of the Demeter fear cult appear in the Gospels of John and Mark, for example, although they were not included in the Jewish foundations of Christianity, the Old Testament. ‘I am…
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Origin of life A new scenario for replication
LMU researchers discover a plausible geological constellation that could have triggered the origin of life on Earth Munich, October 25, 2024 – The origin of life on Earth is still an unsolved mystery, but a common theory suggests that the replication of genetic material – the nucleic acids DNA and RNA – was a central…
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From chaos to order – how robust embryos form
A single egg cell is fertilised – it starts to divide continuously. The young embryo slowly assembles. The initially chaotic cluster of cells gradually develops into highly organised structures. An international research team, including scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), has now gained new insights into this process. The results, which…