Prebiotic chemistry in nano-environments confined within catalytic mineral media is emerging as a promising frontier in origins-of-life research. Such confined spaces exhibit physicochemical properties distinct from bulk conditions, enabling out-of-equilibrium […]
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Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase-encoding Microorganisms In Volcanic Astrobiological Analogues: An Enzyme System To Investigate The Evolution Of Life
Volcanic environments provide analogues for studying the origin of life and its persistence under extreme conditions on early Earth and other planetary bodies. Pioneering microbes that oxidise inorganic gases, such […]
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Behavior Of Biomolecules Under High-pressure Torsion And Its Implications For Astrobiology
Understanding the fate of biomolecules under extreme conditions is central to astrobiology and the origin of life.
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Quantifying Building Blocks of Life in Planetary Analog Materials: Implications for Prebiotic Chemistry and Biosignature Identification
Building blocks of life such as amino acids, nucleobases, and fatty acids are central to prebiotic chemistry and represent key targets in the search for planetary biosignatures. In planetary materials, […]
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Flare-driven Habitability: Expanding Life’s Potential Around Low-mass Stars
The traditional definition of the circumstellar habitable zone (HZ) focuses on liquid water, but neglects the crucial role of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in prebiotic chemistry.
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A Modular 3D-Printed Design To Investigate Prebiotic Chemical Systems In Hot Spring Pools
The emergence of protocells, membranous compartments with encapsulated genetic material, was a crucial step in life’s origin and evolution. The hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life suggests that […]
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Icelandic Hot Springs as a Prebiotic Analog: Wet-Dry Cycling Effects on the Stability of Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
The hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life proposes that naturally occurring wet-dry cycles in small bodies of water could have driven condensation reactions on prebiotic Earth.
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Hunting For Methanol In The Water Rich, Planet Forming Disk Aaround HL Tau
Methanol, the simplest complex organic molecule found in space, is considered a key compound necessary for the formation of chemical species of prebiotic interest. Methanol detections in protoplanetary disks remain […]
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Hydrocarbon Complexity And Photochemical Shielding Of Prebiotic Feedstock Molecules In Exoplanet Atmospheres
The potential of prebiotic chemistry to propagate on an exoplanet fundamentally depends on whether the atmospheric conditions can facilitate the production of prebiotic feedstock molecules.
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Template-Based Catalysis and the Emergence of Collectively Autocatalytic SystemsEntropy
Mathematical and computational models, which have been successfully used in various fields of biology, are particularly relevant in studies on the origin of life, where wet experiments have not yet […]