 littlepete50
Male, 18-29, Europe
 1364 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 2:48:06 PM
Yay, ATP gives 30.6 kj mol-1 with every phosphate lost and requires 30.6 kj mol-1 with every phosphate gained in reformation. Hoorah for slightly mind numbing biological processes :) |
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 meepmaker
Male, 30-39, Southern US
6716 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 7:14:12 AM
Why do we still buy batteries? |
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 bored-am-I
Male, 30-39, Europe
783 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 6:19:38 AM
Adenosine TriPhosphate is not a new discovery, though...
I learned about ATP in Natural Science class 20 years ago... |
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 almightybob1
Male, 18-29, Europe
4278 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 5:32:02 AM
Let's just wait and see if this passes muster of peer review and publication first.
It's already been published, in the journal Chemical Communications. |
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 aikiman
Male, 40-49, Europe
255 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 4:38:59 AM
So anyway....Magnets,how the ***** do they work? |
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 beternal
Male, 18-29, Europe
1848 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 1:11:25 AM
Summary of summary: they think they've found a chemical that releases enough energy when broken down be able to make the components of 'primordial soup' - all the things required for life to begin.
(N.B, I know breaking bonds requires energy and it is the formation of new bonds that releases it - someone is bound to be a pedant and comment on that, I was just simplifying) |
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beternal
Male, 18-29, Europe
1848 Posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010 1:05:47 AM
Finally a degree in biochemistry comes in handy! 
Summary: Basically for anything to be made in a cell (proteins, amino acids, complexes etc), energy is required. Enzymes are 'machines' in our bodies that perform other functions like making other proteins. These machines are run by ATP (the equivalent of batteries). These batteries are 'charged' from the energy released when food is broken down.
The point they are trying to make here is that this ATP can be used to 'fuel' various chemical reactions within a cell but you need something with more energy to 'charge'/ make that ATP to begin with.
Much like saying the 'mains' can charge a car battery, the car battery can charge an AA battery and an AA battery can charge a watch battery. Here, the ATP is the AA battery and the pyrophosphite is the 'mains'.
An intermediate (the car battery) that you're all aware of is creatine which body builders use - this can be used to more efficiently 'make' ATP- ne |
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 floppydisk35
Male, 13-17, Europe
14 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:19:47 PM
summary, anybody.....? =/ |
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 Volsunga
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1548 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:17:11 PM
Dan, now all those moronic panspermia theorists will start up again...
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 WRNKLDTITFUZ
Male, 18-29, Western US
316 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:15:02 PM
i wish i was better at skimming
summary? |
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 tinyhulk
Male, 13-17, Southern US
51 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:52:18 PM
i thought it was going to be a link with a giant chuck norris in outer-space. -_-
i am disappoint. |
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deadmeat553
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
148 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:20:34 PM
so hoe exactly did time start? cause sometin had to put time in motion and for that to have happend time must have already existed, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. :P |
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 johnnyab
Male, 18-29, Europe
68 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:51:57 PM
What is this "energy" they speak of?
- I've often wondered the very same thing |
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mcfudge
Male, 18-29, Southern US
539 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 1:58:09 PM
What is this "energy" they speak of? |
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 Spider_sol
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1454 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:14:27 PM
It's funny how all the comments after the article at first read like people trolling pretending to be christians, but they really believe that stuff.
Sorry for turning this into a religious debate, like all other things on iab. |
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 kinjomusashi
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
920 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:12:42 PM
i thought all life came from midichlorians...george lucas can't be wrong |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:11:13 PM
Wow, so thats like saying were one step closer to immortality! |
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 SPrinkZ
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2133 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:09:36 PM
we do know some things about it...it must have mass, or some effect like gravity, and it appears to bubble around each galaxy like a halo holding it in a perfectly synchronized spin from inside out...it doesn't work like it should. The outside arm (where we are) should be moving around the center of the galaxy slower than the inside--but that isn't true and they think dark matter is to blame. But whatevs. |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14374 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:09:07 PM
'citing as-yet-unpublished evidence.'
Let's just wait and see if this passes muster of peer review and publication first. |
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 Salted_Eggs
Male, 18-29, Western US
773 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:41:58 AM
*snore*
Who cares about the past, look ahead.
:thumbs: |
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 LightShaded
Male, 18-29, Canada
420 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:24:25 AM
I'd really enjoy if it we knew more about dark matter. |
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 patchouly
Male, 40-49, Canada
2953 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:07:50 AM
Not really "new".
Very interesting concept. I'm not certain how far they will get with it, but it is an interesting direction. |
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 cobrakiller
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
6843 Posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 10:31:43 AM
Link: New Theory for Life's First Energy Source [Rate Link] - Scientists now say that there may have been a new source that sparked the first sign of life on earth. Freaky. |
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