The origin of life must have involved an unlikely transition from chaotic chemistry to reproducing supramolecular structures.
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ACEs In Spaces: Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems In Spatial Settings
Autocatalysis is thought to have played an important role in the earliest stages of the origin of life. An autocatalytic cycle’s (AC) constituent chemicals can collectively catalyze their own recreation.
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Fatty Acid Vesicles As Hard UV-C Shields for Early Life
Theories on life’s origin generally acknowledge the advantage of a semi-permeable vesicle (protocell) for enhancing the chemical reaction-diffusion processes involved in abiogenesis.
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Shedding light On The Origin Of Complex Life Forms
How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology.
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Model Shows How Intelligent-like Behavior Can Emerge From Non-living Agents
From a distance, they looked like clouds of dust. Yet, the swarm of microrobots in author Michael Crichton’s bestseller “Prey” was self-organized.
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Mimicking Life: A Breakthrough In Non-living Materials
Researchers at the Eelkema Lab have discovered a new process that uses fuel to control non-living materials, similar to what living cells do.
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Life Imitates Mica
In mythologies and origin stories around the world, various cultures and religions point to clay as the vessel of life, the primordial material that creator gods imbued with a self-sustaining […]
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'Life-like' Lasers Can Self-organise, Adapt Their Structure, And Cooperate
By mimicking features of living systems, self-organising lasers could lead to new materials for sensing, computing, light sources and displays. While many artificial materials have advanced properties, they have a […]
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The Origin Of Complex cells Started Without Oxygen, New Research Suggests
Since the 1960s, many experts have argued that the emergence of eukaryotes (cells containing a clearly defined nucleus) happened in response to the oxygenation of Earth’s surface environment. But a […]
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New Study Sheds Light On Origins Of Life On Earth
Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the […]