Yes, very interesting indeed, but...
"The idea that particles of inorganic dust can take on a life of their own is nothing short of alien, but an international team has discovered that under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organized into helical structures."
...is this a new idea? I was under the impression that this was now a widely held view of the possible origins of life on Earth.
At least it presents more evidence against the
Cosmic Ancestry hypothesis (if more were needed):
http://www.panspermia.org/intro.htm"We are calling the union of Lovelock's Gaia with Hoyle and Wickramasinghe's expanded theory of panspermia Cosmic Ancestry. This account of evolution and the origin of life on Earth is profoundly different from the prevailing scientific paradigm. The new theory challenges not merely the answers but the questions that are popular today. Cosmic Ancestry implies, we find, that life can only descend from ancestors at least as highly evolved as itself. And
it means, we believe, that there can be no origin of life from nonliving matter in the past."
