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Binding of Dipeptides to Fatty Acid Membranes Explains Their Colocalization in Protocells but Does Not Select for Them Relative to Unjoined Amino Acids

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The role of borosilicate glass in Miller–Urey experiment

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The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon

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A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism

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Compositional heterogeneity confers selective advantage to model protocellular membranes during the origins of cellular life

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The Messy Alkaline Formose Reaction and Its Link to Metabolism

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CO2 reduction driven by a pH gradient

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Accretion of Water in Carbonaceous Chondrites: Current Evidence and Implications for the Delivery of Water to Early Earth

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Length-Selective Synthesis of Acylglycerol-Phosphates through Energy-Dissipative Cycling

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Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life

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

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Prebiotic amino acids bind to and stabilize prebiotic fatty acid membranes

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Promotion of protocell self-assembly from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life

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

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New insights into Mo and Ru isotope variation in the nebula and terrestrial planet accretionary genetics

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Assessing the diversity of lipids formed via Fischer-Tropsch-type reactions

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Environmental Processing of Lipids Driven by Aqueous Photochemistry of α-Keto Acids

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Native iron reduces CO2 to intermediates and end-products of the acetyl-CoA pathway

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Formation of carboxylic acids during degradation of monosaccharides

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Meteoritic Abundances of Fatty Acids and Potential Reaction Pathways in Planetesimals

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UV photochemistry of carboxylic acids at the air-sea boundary: A relevant source of glyoxal and other oxygenated VOC in the marine atmosphere

(2017) R. Chiu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Effect of Acyl Chain Length on the Rate of Phospholipid Flip-Flop and Intermembrane Transfer

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The isotopic nature of the Earth’s accreting material through time

(2017) Nicolas Dauphas   NATURE

Phosphorylation, oligomerization and self-assembly in water under potential prebiotic conditions

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Formation of nucleobases in a Miller–Urey reducing atmosphere

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

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From Tunguska to Chelyabinsk via Jupiter

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Effect of Steam During Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Using Biomass-Derived Syngas

(2016) Zi Wang et al.   CATALYSIS LETTERS

Unsaturated C3,5,7,9-Monocarboxylic Acids by Aqueous, One-Pot Carbon Fixation: Possible Relevance for the Origin of Life

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The key role of meteorites in the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules in a formamide/water environment

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Bio-inspired CO2 conversion by iron sulfide catalysts under sustainable conditions

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Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon

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Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis: Effect of Reaction Temperature for Aqueous-Phase Synthesis Over a Platinum Promoted Co/Alumina Catalyst

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Atmospheric hydrogen peroxide and Eoarchean iron formations

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Soluble organic compounds in the Tagish Lake meteorite

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Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts

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Fatty acid membrane assembly on coacervate microdroplets as a step towards a hybrid protocell model

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Nucleobases bind to and stabilize aggregates of a prebiotic amphiphile, providing a viable mechanism for the emergence of protocells

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Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization

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Effects of secondary alteration on the composition of free and IOM-derived monocarboxylic acids in carbonaceous chondrites

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Density, porosity, and magnetic susceptibility of carbonaceous chondrites

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Physical effects underlying the transition from primitive to modern cell membranes

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Prebiotically relevant mixed fatty acid vesicles support anionic solute encapsulation and photochemically catalyzed trans-membrane charge transport

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ABIOTIC FORMATION OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS (RCOOH) IN INTERSTELLAR AND SOLAR SYSTEM MODEL ICES

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Studies and Discriminations of the Kinetic Models for the Iron-Based Fischer−Tropsch Catalytic Reaction in a Recycle Slurry Reactor

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A Mild Hydrothermal Route to Fix Carbon Dioxide to Simple Carboxylic Acids

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From Self-Assembled Vesicles to Protocells

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Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

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Hydrocarbons and oxidized organic compounds in hydrothermal fluids from Rainbow and Lost City ultramafic-hosted vents

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

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The Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

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