Chemical and geological processes on prebiotic Earth are believed to have resulted in the emergence of life through the increasing organization and functionality of organic molecules.
Background Obtaining isotopic data on soluble organic compounds, such as amino acids, in extraterrestrial samples is crucial for understanding their origins, prebiotic chemistry, and potential contamination. Conventional GC‐IRMS requires grams […]
Apart from playing the well-recognized roles in the self-assembly of intracellular machinery liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) constitutes a hypothetical, yet compelling scenario for prebiotic compartmentalization.
Amino acids and amide bonds (−C(O)−NH−) are the essential components of proteins, which serve as the foundation of life on Earth. As a result, molecules containing peptide bonds are of […]
Researchers have for the first time isolated a compound that could open new doors in understanding the chemistry that supports life in space.
The adsorption of biomolecules onto mineral surfaces plays a crucial role in the context of prebiotic chemistry, as originally proposed by John Desmond Bernal.
Dr. Seda Işık, who completed her doctorate at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences in the Earth System Science Program, achieved significant results in interpreting chemical evidence […]
The origin of life is one of the most compelling questions in science. While experimental prebiotic chemistry has produced a wide range of reactions and plausible pathways, the resulting data […]
P-N species e.g., amidophosphates readily phosphorylate organics, thereby overcoming the so-called ‘Phosphate Problem’.
Carbonaceous chondrite (CC) meteorites are fragments of planetesimals that hold clues about the early solar system’s organic matter. Amino acids are key to life on Earth; thus their study from […]
