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Surface‐Driven Protocell Formation in Geologically Relevant Early Earth Environment
ChemSystemsChem, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2026.Illustration of a prebiotic early‐Earth environment showing cell‐like protocells (blue spheres) and other complex organic molecules (pink and green spheres) distributed across terrestrial surfaces and within subsurface niches. Volcanic landscapes and mineral‐rich substrates provide diverse geochemical settings for the assembly and evolution of ...
Pamela Knoll, Silvia Holler
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Nanosilica-supported liposome (protocells) as a drug vehicle for cancer therapy
International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2018 Vinay K Belwal,1 KP Singh1,2 1Bio-Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, Biophysics Unit, CBSH, GB Pant University Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, 2Department of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, COBSH, CCS Haryana ...
Belwal VK, Singh KP
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Population Dynamics of Autocatalytic Sets in a Compartmentalized Spatial World
Life, 2018 Autocatalytic sets are self-sustaining and collectively catalytic chemical reaction networks which are believed to have played an important role in the origin of life.
Wim Hordijk +3 more
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ChemSystemsChem, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2026.A new strategy for temporal control over simple and complex coacervates is described here. The urea‐urease reaction results in the timed formation and/or destruction of complex coacervates after controllable delays. This strategy is easily adaptable to different time scales and polyelectrolyte pairs.
Shana Shirin Valapra +4 more
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The RNA-DNA world and the emergence of DNA-encoded heritable traits
RNA BiologyThe RNA world hypothesis confers a central role to RNA molecules in information encoding and catalysis. Even though evidence in support of this hypothesis has accumulated from both experiments and computational modelling, the transition from an RNA world
Suvam Roy, Supratim Sengupta
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Recursiveness, Switching, and Fluctuations in a Replicating Catalytic Network
, 2003 A protocell model consisting of mutually catalyzing molecules is studied in order to investigate how chemical compositions are transferred recursively through cell divisions under replication errors.
B. Hess +16 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, Volume 15, Issue 6, 9 February 2026.Membrane fusion‐inspired nanomaterials offer transformative potential in diagnostics by mimicking natural fusion processes to achieve highly sensitive and specific detection of disease biomarkers. This review highlights recent advancements in nanomaterial functionalization strategies, signal amplification systems, and stimuli‐responsive fusion designs,
Sojeong Lee +9 more
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Fundamental Molecules of Life are Pigments which Arose and Evolved to Dissipate the Solar Spectrum
, 2014 The driving force behind the origin and evolution of life has been the thermodynamic imperative of increasing the entropy production of the biosphere through increasing the global solar photon dissipation rate.
Michaelian, Karo, Simeonov, Aleksandar
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On RAF Sets and Autocatalytic Cycles in Random Reaction Networks
, 2014 The emergence of autocatalytic sets of molecules seems to have played an important role in the origin of life context. Although the possibility to reproduce this emergence in laboratory has received considerable attention, this is still far from being ...
A Filisetti +31 more
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Advanced Materials InterfacesLiquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) droplets of biopolymers are known as functional microdroplets in living cells and have recently been used to construct protocells and artificial cells.
Masamune Morita +5 more
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