Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

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Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research

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Photochemical Synthesis of Citric Acid Cycle Intermediates Based on Titanium Dioxide

(2011) Raffaele Saladino et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Formation of Nucleobases from Formamide in the Presence of Iron Oxides: Implication in Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life

(2011) Uma Shanker et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The proteomic complexity and rise of the primordial ancestor of diversified life

(2011) Kyung Mo Kim et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Borate Minerals and Origin of the RNA World

(2011) Edward S. Grew et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Serpentinite and the dawn of life

(2011) N. H. Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Guanine, Adenine, and Hypoxanthine Production in UV-Irradiated Formamide Solutions: Relaxation of the Requirements for Prebiotic Purine Nucleobase Formation

(2010) Hannah L. Barks  et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Geochemistry of H2- and CH4-enriched hydrothermal fluids of Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico. Evidence for serpentinization and abiogenic methane

(2010) Y. A. TARAN et al.   GEOFLUIDS

The hydrogeochemistry of thermal springs on Mutnovskii Volcano, southern Kamchatka

(2010) S. B. Bortnikova et al.   Journal of Volcanology and Seismology

Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion

(2010) Lawrence A. David et al.   NATURE

On the abundance of zinc in the evolutionarily old protein domains

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History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures

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The Hadean-Archaean Environment

(2010) N. H. Sleep   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

On the Origin of Cells and Viruses

(2009) Eugene V. Koonin   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Prebiotic Metabolism: Production by Mineral Photoelectrochemistry of α-Ketocarboxylic Acids in the Reductive Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle

(2009) Marcelo I. Guzman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

On the origin of life in the Zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth

(2009) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

(2009) Armen Y Mulkidjanian   Biology Direct

Detection of Geothermal Phosphite Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

(2009) Herbe Pech et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Are the five natural DNA/RNA base monomers a good choice from natural selection?

(2009) Luis Serrano-Andrés et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

A hierarchical model for evolution of 23S ribosomal RNA

(2009) Konstantin Bokov et al.   NATURE

The evolving ribosome: from non-coded peptide bond formation to sophisticated translation machinery

(2009) Chen Davidovich et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

From formamide to RNA: the roles of formamide and water in the evolution of chemical information

(2009) Raffaele Saladino et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Surprises from Celiac Disease

(2009) Alessio Fasano   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Co-evolution of primordial membranes and membrane proteins

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Production of Potentially Prebiotic Condensed Phosphates by Phosphorus Redox Chemistry

(2008) Matthew A. Pasek et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The past and present of sodium energetics: May the sodium-motive force be with you

(2008) Armen Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics

(2008) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

Lithium in Jack Hills zircons: Evidence for extensive weathering of Earth's earliest crust

(2008) Takayuki Ushikubo et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Metal-ion catalyzed polymerization in the eutectic phase in water–ice: A possible approach to template-directed RNA polymerization

(2008) Pierre-Alain Monnard et al.   JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY

A novel route to photoluminescent, water-soluble Mn-doped ZnS quantum dots via photopolymerization initiated by the quantum dots

(2008) Xufeng Liu et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Origins of life: How leaky were primitive cells?

(2008) David W. Deamer   NATURE

Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions

(2008) Michelle Hopkins et al.   NATURE

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Changeable hydrothermal media as potential cradle of life on a planet

(2008) V.N. Kompanichenko   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

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