Chemistry of life and death with Nick Lane

This episode is with Nick Lane. Nick is a professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London. He is an author of several books like Power, Sex, Suicide; Life ascending and the Vital question. His latest book is Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death. Here we talk about What is life?, Life as an information, importance of Krebs cycle, How did the life start?, consciousness, chronic diseases like cancer and process of ageing. Guest info: Website: https://nick-lane.net/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Lane/e/B001IXSEJ2/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1 Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F4olJCJHK40l0_0fVpJFgPP2JYynLUs5cpCsX0ADVj9y4VIo99TJ598Hr0_ItDJucJJGG4Tlxw9nr0zvdBMl8ow3iI3rA&user=eChselQAAAAJ Episode links: Website: https://www.reasonwithscience.com/home/chemistry-of-life-and-death-with-nick-lane Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolIkk_oJdI Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rgEE8ZHA8wOMFcDm9k00X?si=Efq33fLXRs66vb5d6KlPVw Apple podcast: https://podcastsconnect.apple.com/my-podcasts/show/reason-with-science/407cd478-4271-4319-8318-fc378d4e7ccb/episode/chemistry-of-life-and-death-with-nick-lane/48ce9fbe-5e92-43cd-a97a-4d6b846a7888 Google podcast: https://podcastsmanager.google.com/episode?show=show%3AktGOqSvOM5S386E5jDIB0g&episode=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iMjMyNDZlOC9wb2RjYXN0L3BsYXkvNTgwNDQxMTUvaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZkM2N0eGxxMWt0dzJubC5jbG91ZGZyb250Lm5ldCUyRnN0YWdpbmclMkYyMDIyLTgtMjQlMkZlODhmZjcyMC01MWJkLTE2ZWYtYzg5Mi0xMTg3MGM2N2EwZGMubXAz&daterange=LAST_28D&hl=en Follow Reason with Science: Website: https://www.reasonwithscience.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/reasonwithscience Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qFLGsPWjL4GAGidmF2nKh Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reason-with-science/id1641776894 Google podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iMjMyNDZlOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:50 Is 'What is life?' a right question? 00:05:10 Information view of life 00:08:02 Importance of metabolism for origin of life 00:14:27 Gases giving rise to life stuff 00:24:06 Why life doesn't form in a cola bottle? 00:25:20 Oxygen based life 00:31:06 Eukaryogenesis 00:41:07 Respiration in bacteria and mitochondria 00:44:29 Electrical potential on membranes 00:52:24 Membrane inheritance 00:58:04 Krebs cycle and reverse Krebs cycle 01:06:54 Recycling of mitochondria for health 01:15:24 Answering important questions in science 01:18:19 Biology of fields 01:32:11 Reductionism in science 01:35:33 How anesthetics affect bacterial or mitochondrial membranes? 01:45:43 Quantum biology 01:59:05 Lee Cronin's idea of synthetic life 02:01:35 Lee Cronin and Sara Walker's assembly theory 02:05:39 Can we simplify present biochemistry? 02:17:53 Thank you! #reasonwithscience #biology #biochemistry