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Conjecture and hypothesis: The importance of reality checks
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017 In origins of life research, it is important to understand the difference between conjecture and hypothesis. This commentary explores the difference and recommends alternative hypotheses as a way to advance our understanding of how life can begin on the ...
David Deamer
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Life, 2015 Hydrothermal fields on the prebiotic Earth are candidate environments for biogenesis. We propose a model in which molecular systems driven by cycles of hydration and dehydration in such sites undergo chemical evolution in dehydrated films on mineral ...
Bruce Damer, David Deamer
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Life, 2014 Explanation of the emergence of primitive cellular structures from a set of chemical reactions is necessary to unveil the origin of life and to experimentally synthesize protocells.
Atsushi Kamimura, Kunihiko Kaneko
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From inanimate matter to living systems [PDF]
Since the early part of this century, the Genesis account of the origin and evolution of life has been explained as an extrapolation of astronomical and geochemical processes.
Fox, S. W.
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Avenues for emergent ecologies
, 2013 In this work, we present some fascinating behaviour emerging from a simple synthetic chemistry model. The results of Ono and Ikegami (2001) demonstrated the spontaneous formation of primitive, self-reproducing cells from a random homogeneous mixture of ...
Bartlett, Stuart, Bullock, Seth
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On Protocell "Computation" [PDF]
, 2006 The EU FP6 Integrated Project PACE ('Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution') is investigating the creation, de novo, of chemical 'protocells'. These will be minimal 'wetware' chemical systems integrating molecular information carriers, primitive energy conversion (metabolism) and containment (membrane).
Kelly, Ciarán +2 more
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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017 Conceiving the process of biogenesis as the evolutionary development of highly dynamic and integrated protocell populations provides the most appropriate framework to address the difficult problem of how prebiotic chemistry bridged the gap to full ...
Ben Shirt-Ediss +2 more
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Silicasomes in Oncology: From Conventional Chemotherapy to Combined Immunotherapy
MoleculesThe use of nanoparticles as drug carriers in oncology has evolved from their traditional role as chemotherapy carriers to their application in immunotherapy, exploiting not only their passive accumulation in solid tumors but also their ability to ...
Alicia Arroyo-Nogales +4 more
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Protocells: Subcompartmentalization and Pseudo‐Division of Model Protocells (Small 2/2021) [PDF]
Small, 2021 Karolina Spustova +3 more
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Membranous Protocell Superstructures
, 2021 How primitive cells emerged and developed on the early Earth remain an unsolved question. In contrast to the hypotheses that the first living cells evolved from a single ancestor, their development as colonies would provide numerous advantages, such as mechanical stability, enhancement of chemical reactions, and sharing of prebiotic molecules.
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