Tag: hydrothermal vent

Watery time capsule hints at how life got started on early Earth

by Colin | Aug 20, 2015 | Earth Science, Journalism, Life | 0

It has all the ingredients of a primordial soup. What’s more, the chemicals of life – discovered in a pocket of water that last saw the light of day 1.5 billion years ago – appear to have formed without any influence from biological processes. Image: brewbooks

Disease causing bugs may have come from the deep

by Colin | Jul 3, 2007 | Evolution, Health, Journalism, Life | 0

What is the difference between the bacteria around a deep-sea vent and those in the human body? Surprisingly little, according to a comparison of the genomes of bacteria from deep-sea vents with those of human and animal bacterial pathogens. Their evolutionary relationship suggests that animal pathogens came from the deep. Image: NOAA Photo Library

Tag: hydrothermal vent

Watery time capsule hints at how life got started on early Earth

Disease causing bugs may have come from the deep

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