Protocells: Milestones and recent advances

I Gözen, ES Köksal, I Põldsalu, L Xue, K Spustova… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The origin of life is still one of humankind's great mysteries. At the transition between
nonliving and living matter, protocells, initially featureless aggregates of abiotic matter, gain …

A physicochemical consideration of prebiotic microenvironments for self-assembly and prebiotic chemistry

A Saha, R Yi, AC Fahrenbach, A Wang, TZ Jia - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
The origin of life on Earth required myriads of chemical and physical processes. These
include the formation of the planet and its geological structures, the formation of the first …

A Bayesian Analysis of the Probability of the Origin of Life Per Site Conducive to Abiogenesis

M Lingam, R Nichols, A Balbi - Astrobiology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
The emergence of life from nonlife, or abiogenesis, remains a fundamental question in
scientific inquiry. In this article, we investigate the probability of the origin of life (per …

A material‐based panspermia hypothesis: The potential of polymer gels and membraneless droplets

M Sithamparam, N Satthiyasilan, C Chen, TZ Jia… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Panspermia hypothesis posits that either life's building blocks (molecular Panspermia)
or life itself (organism‐based Panspermia) may have been interplanetarily transferred to …

Inorganic–organic coprecipitation: spontaneous formation of enclosed and porous silica compartments with enriched biopolymers

X Cheng, J Huang, R Wang, Y Xu, N Wu, J Zhou, X Liu… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We show that it is possible to spontaneously form all-enclosed compartments with
microporous shells and enriched biopolymers via simple coprecipitation of silica and …

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M Sithamparam, N Satthiyasilan, C Chen, KC Jia - Biopolymers - t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp
The Panspermia hypothesis posits that either life's building blocks (molecular Panspermia)
or life itself (organism-based Panspermia) may have been interplanetary transferred to …