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Prebiotic Chemistry: The Role of Trimetaphosphate in Prebiotic Chemical Evolution
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Life’s origins have always been a scientific puzzle. Understanding the production of biomolecules is crucial for understanding the evolution of life on Earth.
Dingwei Gan +6 more
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Promiscuous Ribozymes and Their Proposed Role in Prebiotic Evolution [PDF]
Chemical Reviews, 2020 Evan Janzen, Celia Blanco, Josh Kenchel
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Role of Mineral Surfaces in Prebiotic Chemical Evolution. In Silico Quantum Mechanical Studies
Life, 2019 There is a consensus that the interaction of organic molecules with the surfaces of naturally-occurring minerals might have played a crucial role in chemical evolution and complexification in a prebiotic era.
Albert Rimola +2 more
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Harnessing prebiotic formamide chemistry: a novel platform for antiviral exploration [PDF]
Scientific ReportsViruses and host cells are intricately connected through a shared “chemical language” that may trace back to the prebiotic chemistry of early Earth. In this study, we present an innovative platform for antiviral exploration inspired by this primordial ...
Maria Grazia Martina +10 more
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Life, 2022 Origins-of-life chemical experiments usually aim to produce specific chemical end-products such as amino acids, nucleic acids or sugars. The resulting chemical systems do not evolve or adapt because they lack natural selection processes. We have modified
Robert Root-Bernstein, Adam W. Brown
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On the Explicit Function of Life within a Physical Universe
Philosophies, 2021 To describe the meaning of functionality in a universe before life evolved, existing etiological and systemic accounts of function are evaluated. Since the theory of function is only applicable in context with living beings and artifacts used by living ...
Annette Grathoff
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Life, 2022 The RNA world is one of the principal hypotheses to explain the emergence of living systems on the prebiotic Earth. It posits that RNA oligonucleotides acted as both carriers of information as well as catalytic molecules, promoting their own replication.
Tobias Göppel +3 more
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Multistable Protocells Can Aid the Evolution of Prebiotic Autocatalytic Sets
Life, 2023 We present a simple mathematical model that captures the evolutionary capabilities of a prebiotic compartment or protocell. In the model, the protocell contains an autocatalytic set whose chemical dynamics is coupled to the growth–division dynamics of ...
Angad Yuvraj Singh, Sanjay Jain
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Origin of Life: The Point of No Return
Life, 2020 Origin of life research is one of the greatest scientific frontiers of mankind. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life began. Although different hypotheses emphasize different initial phenomena, all of them agree around one important ...
Dimiter Kunnev
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Life, 2021 “Prebiotic soup” often features in discussions of origins of life research, both as a theoretical concept when discussing abiological pathways to modern biochemical building blocks and, more recently, as a feedstock in prebiotic chemistry experiments ...
Lena Vincent +4 more
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