Opinion: Studies on the origin of life — the end of the beginning

Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent

(2016) Bradley Burcar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Origin of Life in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

(2016) Victor Sojo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Natural pH Gradients in Hydrothermal Alkali Vents Were Unlikely to Have Played a Role in the Origin of Life

(2016) J. Baz Jackson   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

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

The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

(2015) John D. Sutherland   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reaching Back to Jump Forward: Recent Efforts towards a Systems-Level Hypothesis for an Early RNA World

(2015) Greg Springsteen   CHEMBIOCHEM

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

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

Transient assembly of active materials fueled by a chemical reaction

(2015) J. Boekhoven et al.   SCIENCE

Energy at life's origin

(2014) W. F. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

Synthesis of Aldehydic Ribonucleotide and Amino Acid Precursors by Photoredox Chemistry

(2013) Dougal J. Ritson et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functional RNAs exhibit tolerance for non-heritable 2′–5′ versus 3′–5′ backbone heterogeneity

(2013) Aaron E. Engelhart et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation

(2013) Frank R. Bowler et al.   Nature Chemistry

Comprehensive experimental fitness landscape and evolutionary network for small RNA

(2013) J. I. Jimenez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards an evolutionary theory of the origin of life based on kinetics and thermodynamics

(2013) R. Pascal et al.   Open Biology

Bacterial and Plant Ketol-Acid Reductoisomerases Have Different Mechanisms of Induced Fit during the Catalytic Cycle

(2012) Sze-Ho Wong et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

(2012) Dougal Ritson et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi

(2011) M. W. Powner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Primordial synthesis of amines and amino acids in a 1958 Miller H2S-rich spark discharge experiment

(2011) E. T. Parker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

A Recombination-Based Model for the Origin and Early Evolution of Genetic Information

(2008) Niles Lehman   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY