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The algorithmic origins of life [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2013 Although it has been notoriously difficult to pin down precisely what is it that makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect is one key property, perhaps the key property. The unique informational narrative of living systems suggests that life may be characterized by context-dependent causal ...
Walker, Sara Imari, Davies, Paul C. W.
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Sequencing the origins of life [PDF]
BBA Advances, 2022 One goal of origins of life research is to understand how primitive informational and catalytic biopolymers emerged and evolved. Recently, a number of sequencing techniques have been applied to analysis of replicating and evolving primitive biopolymer ...
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Annual Review of Genetics, 1974 The origin of life is in a sense a genetic problem, for, as H. J. Muller pointed out many years ago, the essential attribute that identifies living matter is its capacity to replicate itself and its variants (1). Because this uniquely biological property has its physical basis in proteins and nucleic acids, the goal of modern work on the origin of life
Horowitz, N. H., Hubbard, Jerry S.
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Synthesis and Characterization of Amino Acid Decyl Esters as Early Membranes for the Origins of Life [PDF]
Membranes, 2022 Understanding how membrane forming amphiphiles are synthesized and aggregate in prebiotic settings is required for understanding the origins of life on Earth 4 billion years ago.
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Recent Advances in Origins of Life Research by Biophysicists in Japan [PDF]
Challenges, 2019 Biophysics research tends to focus on utilizing multidisciplinary technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations to study biological phenomena through the lens of chemistry and physics.
Tony Z. Jia, Yutetsu Kuruma
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Quantifying the origins of life on a planetary scale. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 A simple, heuristic formula with parallels to the Drake Equation is introduced to help focus discussion on open questions for the origins of life in a planetary context. This approach indicates a number of areas where quantitative progress can be made on
Scharf C, Cronin L.
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Life’s Late Digital Revolution and Why It Matters for the Study of the Origins of Life [PDF]
Life, 2017 The information contained in life exists in two forms, analog and digital. Analog information is manifest mainly in the differing concentrations of chemicals that get passed from generation to generation and can vary from cell to cell.
David A. Baum, Niles Lehman
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Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Using the radicals generated during pH oscillations, a semibatch pH oscillator is used as the chemical fuel and engine to drive polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) for the one-pot autonomous synthesis of functional giant vesicles.
Jinshan Guo +3 more
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Evolution of Realistic Organic Mixtures for the Origins of Life through Wet–Dry Cycling
Sci, 2022 One of the challenges in understanding chemical evolution is the large number of starting organics and environments that were plausible on early Earth. Starting with realistic organic mixtures and using chemical analyses that are not biologically biased,
Kiernan Foster +4 more
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Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Computing with molecules is at the center of complex natural phenomena, where the information contained in ordered sequences of molecules is used to implement functionalities of synthesized materials or to interpret the environment, as in Biology.
Marta Dueñas-Díez +3 more
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