The single chirality of biological molecules in terrestrial biology raises more questions than
certitudes about its origin. The emergence of biological homochirality (BH) and its …

The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in our Solar System is currently guided by our
understanding of terrestrial biology and its associated biosignatures. The observed …

The search for alien life is hard because we do not know what signatures are unique to life.
We show why complex molecules found in high abundance are universal biosignatures and …

The origin of life is a fascinating, unresolved problem whose deciphering would have
important scientific, epistemological and social implications. Over time, philosophers and …

We describe the history and features of the Ladder of Life Detection, a tool intended to guide
the design of investigations to detect microbial life within the practical constraints of robotic …

Catalysis with chiral secondary amines (asymmetric aminocatalysis) has become a well‐
established and powerful synthetic tool for the chemo‐and enantioselective functionalization …

Glutamate (Glu) is the primary excitatory transmitter in the mammalian brain. But, we know
little about the evolutionary history of this adaptation, including the selection of l-glutamate …

The single-handedness of biological molecules has fascinated scientists and laymen alike
since Pasteur's first painstaking separation of the enantiomorphic crystals of a tartrate salt …

Liquid formamide has been irradiated by high-energy proton beams in the presence of
powdered meteorites, and the products of the catalyzed resulting syntheses were analyzed …

The field of biomimetic chemistry encompasses a wide variety of subfields, including
biomimetic catalysis, bioinspired self-assembly, and biomimetic reactions in total synthesis …