Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish

PLoS Biology has a--well they call it a "feature." It's not really a primary article, nor is it a review article. I guess it's closest to a popular science article. Anyway, the article is "Jump-Starting a Cellular World: Investigating the Origin of Life, from Soup to Networks".

To some, the idea of an inorganic start to life is just silly--dismissed out of hand. If such a thing happened, we have a long way to go to understand it. Yet what has been done is tantalizing and adds to our understanding of the world, even if it does not explain life. One thing is for sure, we won't find it if we don't look for it. (Some people would prefer that, I'm sure.)