The Fahrenbach group opines in the recent issue of Nature Chemistry News and Views on future directions for prebiotic chemistry. Check it out! Here’s a snippet…

“The theoretical physicist Paul Dirac famously emphasized the importance of beauty⁷ in guiding one’s physical equations. Chemical equations also possess a certain beauty. The α-ketoacid r-TCA cycle analogue discovered by the Krishnamurthy and Springsteen team is elegant in its mechanism yet far-reaching in its complexity — one can’t help but wonder if a similar approach of appealing to beauty as a guide ought to be applied to origins of life research.“