Autocatalytic Replication and Homochirality in Biopolymers: Is Homochirality a Requirement of Life or a Result of It?

Comparison of the Roles of Nucleotide Synthesis, Polymerization, and Recombination in the Origin of Autocatalytic Sets of RNAs

(2011) Meng Wu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials

(2011) Jason E. Hein et al.   Nature Chemistry

Extended High Circular Polarization in the Orion Massive Star Forming Region: Implications for the Origin of Homochirality in the Solar System

(2010) Tsubasa Fukue et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Homochiral Selectivity in RNA Synthesis: Montmorillonite-catalyzed Quaternary Reactions of D, L-Purine with D, L- Pyrimidine Nucleotides

(2010) Prakash C. Joshi et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Rooting Prebiotic Chirality in Spinomeric Chemistry?

(2009) Radu Popa et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Origin of Self-Replicating Biopolymers: Autocatalytic Feedback Can Jump-Start the RNA World

(2009) Meng Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The basic reproductive ratio of life

(2009) Michael L. Manapat et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Stereoselective Syntheses of Pentose Sugars Under Realistic Prebiotic Conditions

(2009) Sandra Pizzarello et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Mirror Symmetry Breaking and Restoration: The Role of Noise and Chiral Bias

(2009) David Hochberg   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Enrichment of the amino acid L-isovaline by aqueous alteration on CI and CM meteorite parent bodies

(2009) D. P. Glavin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prelife catalysts and replicators

(2009) H. Ohtsuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emergence of a Single Solid Chiral State from a Nearly Racemic Amino Acid Derivative

(2008) Wim L. Noorduin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Punctuated Chirality

(2008) Marcelo Gleiser et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

An Extended Model for the Evolution of Prebiotic Homochirality: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Origin of Life

(2008) Marcelo Gleiser et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Compositional Inheritance: Comparison of Self-assembly and Catalysis

(2008) Meng Wu et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Stability of racemic and chiral steady states in open and closed chemical systems

(2008) Josep M. Ribó et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Molecular asymmetry in extraterrestrial chemistry: Insights from a pristine meteorite

(2008) S. Pizzarello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA