DROOL Notebook

Mythbusters have said that the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. So this is my notebook for my screwing around--err, I mean scientific studies--on the origin of life.

DROOL stands for Discovering and Recreating the Origin Of Life. Those are my goals. Specifically, I want to test this hypothesis:

Life started with an autocatalytic set of molecules that created lipids which spontaneously formed liposomes and contained the autocatalytic set of molecules. These first cells continued producing lipids which, when added to the liposome, became large enough to spontaneously split in two and enabled the first cells to reproduce themselves.

This blog will be haphazard and non-structured, at least at first. It will be a running commentary on my experiments and, hopefully, results.

I plan to run both computer and wet chemistry experiments. The first will be toward the goal of discovering the origin of life, the second in recreating it.

More to come...