Solid-State Single-Molecule Sensing with the Electronic Life-Detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE)

Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses

(2022) Craig A. Jerome et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Resolving the History of Life on Earth by Seeking Life As We Know It on Mars

(2022) Christopher E. Carr   ASTROBIOLOGY

Deoxyribonucleic Acid Extraction from Mars Analog Soils and Their Characterization with Solid-State Nanopores

(2022) Zehui Xia et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Amino acid abundances and compositions in iron and stony‐iron meteorites

(2021) Jamie E. Elsila et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Extraterrestrial amino acids and L‐enantiomeric excesses in the CM 2 carbonaceous chondrites Aguas Zarcas and Murchison

(2020) Daniel P. Glavin et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Biosignature Analysis of Mars Soil Analogs from the Atacama Desert: Challenges and Implications for Future Missions to Mars

(2020) Joost W. Aerts et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka 12236

(2020) Daniel P. Glavin et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Redox Biochemistry of the Genetic Code

(2020) Bernd Moosmann   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

High-Precision Single-Molecule Identification Based on Single-Molecule Information within a Noisy Matrix

(2019) Masateru Taniguchi et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Decomposition of amino acids in water with application to in-situ measurements of Enceladus, Europa and other hydrothermally active icy ocean worlds

(2019) Ngoc Truong et al.   ICARUS

Subcritical water extraction of amino acids from Mars analog soils

(2018) Aaron C. Noell et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Quantitative analysis of DNA with single-molecule sequencing

(2018) Takahito Ohshiro et al.   Scientific Reports

Functional Properties of Amino Acid Side Chains as Biomarkers of Extraterrestrial Life

(2018) Christos D. Georgiou   ASTROBIOLOGY

Abiotic synthesis of amino acids in the recesses of the oceanic lithosphere

(2018) Bénédicte Ménez et al.   NATURE

A probabilistic framework for identifying biosignatures using Pathway Complexity

(2017) Stuart M. Marshall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Modern diversification of the amino acid repertoire driven by oxygen

(2017) Matthias Granold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhanced Resolution of Chiral Amino Acids with Capillary Electrophoresis for Biosignature Detection in Extraterrestrial Samples

(2016) Jessica S. Creamer et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Enceladus’s measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean

(2016) P.C. Thomas et al.   ICARUS

Measurement of DNA Translocation Dynamics in a Solid-State Nanopore at 100 ns Temporal Resolution

(2016) Siddharth Shekar et al.   NANO LETTERS

Decoding DNA, RNA and peptides with quantum tunnelling

(2016) Massimiliano Di Ventra et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Ribose and related sugars from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogs

(2016) C. Meinert et al.   SCIENCE

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

(2016) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   Nature Microbiology

Break junction under electrochemical gating: testbed for single-molecule electronics

(2015) Cancan Huang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The amino acid and hydrocarbon contents of the Paris meteorite: Insights into the most primitive CM chondrite

(2015) Zita Martins et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

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

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

Hole hopping through tyrosine/tryptophan chains protects proteins from oxidative damage

(2015) Harry B. Gray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chance and Necessity in Biochemistry: Implications for the Search for Extraterrestrial Biomarkers in Earth-like Environments

(2014) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Nanopore-Based Instruments as Biosensors for Future Planetary Missions

(2014) Fabio Rezzonico   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds

(2014) Michael J. Russell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Detection of post-translational modifications in single peptides using electron tunnelling currents

(2014) Takahito Ohshiro et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Quantifying thiol–gold interactions towards the efficient strength control

(2014) Yurui Xue et al.   Nature Communications

Beyond Terrestrial Biology: Charting the Chemical Universe of α-Amino Acid Structures

(2013) Markus Meringer et al.   Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Concentrations and distributions of amino acids in black and white smoker fluids at temperatures over 200°C

(2013) Shigeshi Fuchida et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Volatile, Isotope, and Organic Analysis of Martian Fines with the Mars Curiosity Rover

(2013) L. A. Leshin et al.   SCIENCE

Transient Water Vapor at Europa's South Pole

(2013) L. Roth et al.   SCIENCE

Nucleobases and Prebiotic Molecules in Organic Residues Produced from the Ultraviolet Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in NH3 and H2O+NH3 Ices

(2012) Michel Nuevo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Formation of Amino Acids and Nucleotide Bases in a Titan Atmosphere Simulation Experiment

(2012) S.M. Hörst et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars

(2012) Gordon R. Osinski et al.   ICARUS

Fast and automatic processing of multi-level events in nanopore translocation experiments

(2012) C. Raillon et al.   Nanoscale

The influence of mineralogy on recovering organic acids from Mars analogue materials using the “one-pot” derivatization experiment on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite

(2012) F. Stalport et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Organic Synthesis via Irradiation and Warming of Ice Grains in the Solar Nebula

(2012) F. J. Ciesla et al.   SCIENCE

Single-Molecule Electrical Random Resequencing of DNA and RNA

(2012) Takahito Ohshiro et al.   Scientific Reports

Influence of Binding Groups on Molecular Junction Formation

(2011) Carlos R. Arroyo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Single Molecular Conductance of Tolanes: Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Junction Evolution Dependent on the Anchoring Group

(2011) Wenjing Hong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Detection and formation scenario of citric acid, pyruvic acid, and other possible metabolism precursors in carbonaceous meteorites

(2011) G. Cooper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases

(2011) M. P. Callahan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of parent body processes on amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites

(2010) Daniel P. GLAVIN et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

High molecular diversity of extraterrestrial organic matter in Murchison meteorite revealed 40 years after its fall

(2010) P. Schmitt-Kopplin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Formation of Uracil from the Ultraviolet Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in Pure H2O Ices

(2009) Michel Nuevo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A Thermodynamic Basis for Prebiotic Amino Acid Synthesis and the Nature of the First Genetic Code

(2009) Paul G. Higgs et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Characterization of gold nanoparticle binding to microtubule filaments

(2009) Jing C. Zhou et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume

(2009) J. H. Waite Jr et al.   NATURE

The origin of the genetic code and of the earliest oligopeptides

(2009) Edward N. Trifonov   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Determination of soil amino acids by high performance liquid chromatography-electro spray ionization-mass spectrometry derivatized with 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate

(2009) Songmei Hou et al.   TALANTA

Fabrication of 0.5 nm electrode gaps using self-breaking technique

(2008) Makusu Tsutsui et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite

(2008) Zita Martins et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Most Conserved Genome Segments for Life Detection on Earth and Other Planets

(2008) Thomas A. Isenbarger et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Adaptive antioxidant methionine accumulation in respiratory chain complexes explains the use of a deviant genetic code in mitochondria

(2008) A. Bender et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Formation and Self-Breaking Mechanism of Stable Atom-Sized Junctions

(2007) Makusu Tsutsui et al.   NANO LETTERS