(((Okay, get this – not only do hydrated nanocarbons cure AIDS and
Alzheimers, they may have started life on Earth. I wonder what's in the water over there in the Ukraine.)))
Link: Smart Economy: What came before DNA ? Fullerenes and amino acids? 08-008.
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"Could C60 Fullerenes have been the templates uses by very basic amino acids to form the first strands of life (DNA) in earth’s pre-mordial soup, millions of years ago?
"This plausible hypothesis (((uh, sorta))) was proposed by Prof. Grigoriy Andrievsky in Sudak Crimea at the 7Th International Conference called Cosmos and the Biosphere, in the fall of 2007 in a paper entitled “Water Structures ordered [in a] specific manner as universal regulators of biological processes; what hydrated fullerenes-the symbiosis of cure carbon and water-have told [us]”.
(((I actually hope this is true. It would be even cooler if you could breed some artificial life just by throwing buckyballs into promordial ooze and then zapping it. Move over, Craig Venter.)))
"Andrievsky G.V. ISMA NAS Ukraine, STC 'Institute for Single Crystals', Kharkiv, Ukraine.
"Andrievsky points out the similarity between spherical fractal clusters of hydrated fullerenes (HyFn) (C60 and surrounding water clusters) and some of the most significant biological structures.
"Fullerenes have been found to mimic several biologically important structures such as clathrine cages, viral structures, and other structural (spatially) similar biological supra-(or sub)-molecular structures.
"He also suggests that the universalism of HyFn biological activity as the confirmation of hypothesis that C60 - H2O systems might be the matrix for primary biological matter (substance) formation such as DNA...."
