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The Nucleoproteinic System

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Chirality

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Our roots reach back to the depths of the past. The grand process — at least within our view of space and time — seems to have endeavored over a period of 10–20 billion years to gain a certain consciousness and understanding of itself. Together with the universe, life patterns originated in their early infancy from an alien phase transition between nothingness and existence in the incomprehensible beginning. In all our insufficiencies, we were a part of these patterns at the very beginning, and we will share their final termination.

In memory of Jiři Beránek who made essential contributions in Prague in the years between (1968–1989) to the sense of scientific community and the progress of science among nucleic acid people, and dedicated to the memory of Richard Altmann who coined the term “nucleic acids” in 1889 in Leipzig

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