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There and back again: from the origin of life to single molecules.
European Biophysics Journal : EBJ 2018 May
What is life? There is hardly a more fundamental question raised by aspiring researchers, and one less prone to ever be answered in a scientifically satisfying way. In the long, productive and highly influential period of research following his Nobel-recognised work on relaxation kinetics, Manfred Eigen made seminal contributions towards a quantifiable definition of life, with a strong focus on its evolutionary character. In the last years of his time as an active researcher, however, he devoted himself to another, purely experimental topic: the detection and analysis of single biomolecules in aqueous solution. In this short review, I will give an overview of the groundbreaking contributions to the field of single molecule research made by Eigen and coworkers, and show that both, in its intrinsic motivation, and in its consequences, single molecule research strongly relates to the question of the physical-chemical essence of life. In fact, research on living systems with single molecule sensitivity will always refer the researcher to the question of the simplest possible representation, and thus the origin, of any biological phenomenon.
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