Spontaneous Formation of Functional Structures in Messy Environments

Prebiotic Protocell Membranes Retain Encapsulated Contents during Flocculation, and Phospholipids Preserve Encapsulation during Dehydration

(2022) Zachary R. Cohen et al.   LANGMUIR

Membrane Structure Obtained in an Experimental Evolution Process

(2022) María J. Dávila et al.   Life-Basel

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

(2021) Mengjun Xue et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Fatty Acid Membranes Boost Peptide Yield and Implications for the Origin of Cellular Life

(2020) Zachary R. Cohen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A Step Toward Molecular Evolution of RNA: Ribose Binds to Prebiotic Fatty Acid Membranes, and Nucleosides Bind Better Than Individual Bases Do

(2020) Mengjun Xue et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Prebiotic oligomerization and self-assembly of structurally diverse xenobiological monomers

(2020) Kuhan Chandru et al.   Scientific Reports

Analyses of Aliphatic Aldehydes and Ketones in Carbonaceous Chondrites

(2019) José C. Aponte et al.   ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life

(2019) Tony Z. Jia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

(2019) Bruce Damer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Organic compounds in fluid inclusions of Archean quartz—Analogues of prebiotic chemistry on early Earth

(2017) Ulrich Schreiber et al.   PLoS One

The Chemical Space Project

(2015) Jean-Louis Reymond   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Omne Vivum Ex Vivo … Omne? How to Feed an Inanimate Evolvable Chemical System so as to Let it Self-evolve into Increased Complexity and Life-like Behaviour

(2015) Peter Strazewski   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Periodic Vesicle Formation in Tectonic Fault Zones—an Ideal Scenario for Molecular Evolution

(2015) Christian Mayer et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

A hydrophobic disordered peptide spontaneously anchors a covalently bound RNA hairpin to giant lipidic vesicles

(2014) Alexandra Le Chevalier Isaad et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

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

(2013) R. A. Black et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hypothesis: Origin of Life in Deep-Reaching Tectonic Faults

(2012) Ulrich Schreiber et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES