UV Transmission in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth

In search of the RNA world on Mars

(2021) Angel Mojarro et al.   Geobiology

Shielding from UV Photodamage: Implications for Surficial Origins of Life Chemistry on the Early Earth

(2021) Zoe R. Todd et al.   ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

An experimental study of photo-oxidation of Fe(II): Implications for the formation of Fe(III) (hydro)oxides on early Mars and Earth

(2021) Haruhisa Tabata et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Illuminating Life’s Origins: UV Photochemistry in Abiotic Synthesis of Biomolecules

(2021) Nicholas J. Green et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions

(2021) Paul B. Rimmer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Prebiotic photoredox synthesis from carbon dioxide and sulfite

(2021) Ziwei Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Chemistry of Abiotic Nucleotide Synthesis

(2020) Mahipal Yadav et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon

(2020) Dimitar D. Sasselov et al.   Science Advances

Ultraviolet-Driven Deamination of Cytidine Ribonucleotides Under Planetary Conditions

(2020) Zoe R. Todd et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides

(2020) Jianfeng Xu et al.   NATURE

Nitrogen Oxide Concentrations in Natural Waters on Early Earth

(2019) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Alkaline lake settings for concentrated prebiotic cyanide and the origin of life

(2019) J.D. Toner et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides

(2019) Sidney Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Probable Cold and Alkaline Surface Environment of the Hadean Earth Caused by Impact Ejecta Weathering

(2019) Shintaro Kadoya et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A carbonate-rich lake solution to the phosphate problem of the origin of life

(2019) Jonathan D. Toner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earth Without Life: A Systems Model of a Global Abiotic Nitrogen Cycle

(2018) Matthieu Laneuville et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Sulfidic Anion Concentrations on Early Earth for Surficial Origins-of-Life Chemistry

(2018) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Solvated-electron production using cyanocuprates is compatible with the UV-environment on a Hadean–Archaean Earth

(2018) Zoe R. Todd et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide

(2018) Jianfeng Xu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Salinity of the Archaean oceans from analysis of fluid inclusions in quartz

(2018) Bernard Marty et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Comprehensive Experimental and Computational Spectroscopic Study of Hexacyanoferrate Complexes in Water: From Infrared to X-ray Wavelengths

(2018) Matthew Ross et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

A Light-Releasable Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotide Activating Agent

(2018) Angelica Mariani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Wet-dry cycles enable the parallel origin of canonical and non-canonical nucleosides by continuous synthesis

(2018) Sidney Becker et al.   Nature Communications

Mimicking the surface and prebiotic chemistry of early Earth using flow chemistry

(2018) Dougal J. Ritson et al.   Nature Communications

Geological and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of Life

(2018) Norman H. Sleep   ASTROBIOLOGY

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets

(2018) Paul B. Rimmer et al.   Science Advances

Considering planetary environments in origin of life studies

(2018) Laura M. Barge   Nature Communications

Enhanced Nonenzymatic RNA Copying with 2-Aminoimidazole Activated Nucleotides

(2017) Li Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Distribution of trace elements and the influence of major-ion water chemistry in saline lakes

(2017) Akihito Mochizuki et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters

(2017) Claudia Bonfio et al.   Nature Chemistry

A key role for green rust in the Precambrian oceans and the genesis of iron formations

(2017) I. Halevy et al.   Nature Geoscience

Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds

(2017) Ben K. D. Pearce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The geologic history of seawater pH

(2017) I. Halevy et al.   SCIENCE

Vesicles of 2-ketooctanoic acid in water

(2017) Huifang Xu et al.   Soft Matter

The Origin of Life in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

(2016) Victor Sojo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Influence of the UV Environment on the Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecules

(2016) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Life in the light: nucleic acid photoproperties as a legacy of chemical evolution

(2016) Ashley A. Beckstead et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

(2015) Bhavesh H. Patel et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotic Vesicle Formation and the Necessity of Salts

(2015) Sarah E. Maurer et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Rethinking the Concepts of Fluence (UV Dose) and Fluence Rate: The Importance of Photon-based Units - A Systemic Review

(2015) James R. Bolton et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Fluid inclusion analysis of silicified Palaeoarchaean oceanic crust – A record of Archaean seawater?

(2015) Katja Farber et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Permethyl-β-Cyclodextrin Spin-Labeled with Nitronyl Nitroxide: Synthesis and EPR Study

(2014) R. K. Strizhakov et al.   APPLIED MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Extinction properties of ultrapure water down to deep ultraviolet wavelengths

(2014) Lars Kröckel et al.   Optical Materials Express

A speciation study of sulfur(iv) in aqueous solution

(2013) Yaser Beyad et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

An anoxic, Fe(II)-rich, U-poor ocean 3.46 billion years ago

(2013) Weiqiang Li et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Production, preservation, and biological processing of mass-independent sulfur isotope fractionation in the Archean surface environment

(2013) I. Halevy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE EVOLUTION OF SOLAR FLUX FROM 0.1 nm TO 160 μm: QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR PLANETARY STUDIES

(2012) Mark W. Claire et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

(2011) S. W. Poulton et al.   Elements

Sulfur speciation in natural hydrothermal waters, Iceland

(2011) Hanna Kaasalainen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Bioenergetics and Life's Origins

(2010) D. Deamer et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Stability of Model Membranes in Extreme Environments

(2008) Trishool Namani et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES