Carl Modes did a PhD in Physics and Astronomy at the University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In 2008 he started as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Theory of Condensed Matter Group at the University of Cambridge. In 2011 he moved back to the United States as a Postdoctoral Associate. He was working at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology (The Rockfeller University) until 2017....
The RNA world hypothesis remains a hallmark in origin of life research despite very poor robustness and low reactivity of most model replicators studied so far.[1] A frequently used trick to enhance ribozyme activity is the use of high concentration molecular crowders (M to mM) to increase RNA concentrations by excluded volume effects.[2] Here we show, that excluded volume effect is not...
