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Biophysical Approach to Understand Life and Cancer
Aging and Cancer, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 70-90, September 2024.ABSTRACT Background From the perspective of biology, the characteristics of life can be categorized as cellular organizations, homeostasis, metabolism, growth, reproduction and heredity, response to stimuli and adaptation to the environment. From the perspective of physics, living organisms are highly ordered, complex, thermodynamically open systems ...
Nuri Faruk Aykan
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The Roles of Possibility and Mechanism in Narrative Explanation [PDF]
, 2018 There is a fairly longstanding distinction between what are called the ideographic as opposed to nomothetic sciences. The nomothetic sciences, such as physics, offer up explanations in terms of the laws and regular operations of nature.
Swaim, Daniel G.
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Clumped Isotope Signatures of Abiotic Methane: The Role of the Combinatorial Isotope Effect
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 129, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract Methane clumped isotope signatures of abiogenesis may be diagnostic of the origin of methane on Earth and other planetary bodies. We performed synthesis of abiogenic methane in hydrothermal conditions between 130 and 300°C and determined δ13C, δD, Δ13CH3D, and Δ12CH2D2.
Jabrane Labidi +5 more
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ChemSystemsChem, Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2024.An automated platform explores the reactions of amino acids in the presence of mineral environments and searches for evidence of the onset of selection. The outcome of oligomerisation is significantly influenced by the presence of different minerals, with certain environments selecting specific fragments that enable the formation defined sequences as a
Silke Asche +5 more
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Integrating the Field of Prebiotic Chemistry into a Christian Worldview [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis will provide an overarching examination into the scientific field of prebiotic chemistry, the purported chemistry of the formation of life on earth.
Anderson, Matthew B
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Mirror Symmetry Breaking in Liquids and Their Impact on the Development of Homochirality in Abiogenesis: Emerging Proto-RNA as Source of Biochirality? [PDF]
, 2020 Carsten Tschierske, Christian Dressel
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The Sorites Paradox, “Life,” and Abiogenesis [PDF]
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2012 Abstract The ancient Greek philosopher Eubulides of Miletus drew attention to the impossibility of defining a point of transition between two states or conditions at opposite ends of a continuum. The ensuing “drawing the line” conundrum—the sorites paradox—arises from the vague predicates which humans use to convey concepts. It is argued that
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Nitrogen heterocycles form peptide nucleic acid precursors in complex prebiotic mixtures
Scientific Reports, 2019 The ability to store information is believed to have been crucial for the origin and evolution of life; however, little is known about the genetic polymers relevant to abiogenesis.
Laura E. Rodriguez +4 more
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Biological generalizations and the search for extraterrestrial life [PDF]
Biological exploration for extraterrestrial ...
Hoffman, D. B., Kontaratos, A. N.
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Subsumed complexity: abiogenesis as a by-product of complex energy transduction [PDF]
, 2017 Zachary R. Adam +3 more
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