Recently, plenty research has been done on discovering the role of energy dissipation in biological networks, most of which focus on the relationship of dissipation and functionality.
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The Emergence of Chirality From Metabolism
Molecular chirality is critical to biochemical function, but it is unknown when chiral selectivity first became important in the evolutionary transition from geochemistry to biochemistry during the emergence of life.
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Metabolism, Information, And Viability In A Simulated Physically-plausible Protocell
Critical experimental design issues connecting energy transduction and inheritable information within a protocell are explored and elucidated.
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Stability Distillation Hypothesis For The Origin Of Life
The essence of life is a frequency distribution conversion process of molecules accompanied by changes in information.