[BroJoeK]

"In his August 1954, Scientific American article, 'The Origin of Life,' Nobel Prize winning Harvard Biologist George Wald stated,
'One only has to contemplate the magnitude of this task...' "

So here we are, 63 years later, a period when many scientific fields have grown by orders of magnitude in understanding (computers come to mind).
Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?

Do Wald's words remain the last on this subject?

I think not.

[papertyger]

Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?

None. Zero. Zip.

The Scientific/Cultural mandarins gave up on the question as unknowable and irrelevant.

[Elsie]

Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?

Well; it's been REALLY hard to determine how many times 'life' sprang from the primordial goo before it learned that it would have to either be able to reproduce itself or else leap up from the muck to live eternally.