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Emergent Bioanalogous Properties of Blockchain-based Distributed Systems
We apply a novel definition of biological systems to a series of reproducible observations on a blockchain-based distributed virtual machine (dVM)....
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Histidine Self-assembly and Stability on Mineral Surfaces as a Model of Prebiotic Chemical Evolution: An Experimental and Computational Approach
The abiotic synthesis of histidine under experimental prebiotic conditions has proven to be chemically promising and plausible. Within this context,...
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Did Cyclic Metaphosphates Have a Role in the Origin of Life?
How life began still eludes science life, the initial progenote in the context presented herein, being a chemical aggregate of primordial inorganic...
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Correction to Volume 50 Issues 3–4
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-021-09607-2
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Molecular Adsorption on Cold Gas-Phase Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters of Chiral Molecules
Gas-phase molecular adsorption was investigated as a model for molecular cloud formation. Molecular adsorption on cold gas-phase hydrogen-bonded...
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Toward Molecular Cooperation by De Novo Peptides
Theoretical models of the chemical origins of life depend on self-replication or autocatalysis, processes that arise from molecular interactions,...
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Investigating the Evolution and Development of Biological Systems from the Perspective of Thermo-Kinetics and Systems Theory
Life itself is grander than the sum of its constituent molecules. Any living organism may be regarded as a part of a dissipative process that...
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Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Large Peptide Systems
Chiral symmetry breaking in far from equilibrium systems with large number of amino acids and peptides, like a prebiotic Earth, was considered. It...
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Plausibility of the Formose Reaction in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vent Environments
Prebiotic processes required a reliable source of free energy and complex chemical mixtures that may have included sugars. The...
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Survival of the Halophilic Archaeon Halovarius luteus after Desiccation, Simulated Martian UV Radiation and Vacuum in Comparison to Bacillus atrophaeus
Extraterrestrial environments influence the biochemistry of organisms through a variety of factors, including high levels of radiation and vacuum,...
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Parity Violation Energy of Biomolecules - V: Protein Metal Centers
The parity-violation difference between mirror images of chiral metal centers found in naturally occurring proteins and enzymes is computed at the...
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The Prebiotic Provenance of Semi-Aqueous Solvents
The numerous and varied roles of phosphorylated organic molecules in biochemistry suggest they may have been important to the origin of life. The...
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Chirality Driven Twisting as a Driving Force of Primitive Folding in Binary Mixtures
The N-trifluoroacetylated α -aminoalcohols (TFAAAs) are able to form quasi-one-dimensional supramolecular fibers (strings) when chirally pure, and...
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Alteration and Stability of Complex Macromolecular Amino Acid Precursors in Hydrothermal Environments
The early Solar System comprised a broad area of abiotically created organic compounds, including interstellar organics which were integrated into...
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Unexpected Thiocyanate Adsorption onto Ferrihydrite Under Prebiotic Chemistry Conditions
The most crucial role played by minerals was in the preconcentration of biomolecules or precursors of biomolecules in prebiotic seas. If this step...
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On A Hypothetical Mechanism of Interstellar Life Transfer Trough Nomadic Objects
Lethal radiation, low vacuum pressure and low temperatures – this is how space welcomes organisms. Crossing of immense interstellar distances...
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Reactivity of Metabolic Intermediates and Cofactor Stability under Model Early Earth Conditions
Understanding the emergence of metabolic pathways is key to unraveling the factors that promoted the origin of life. One popular view is that protein...
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Membranes Composed of Lipopeptides and Liponucleobases Inspired Protolife Evolution
Amino acids and peptides have been demonstrated to form lipoamino acids and lipopeptides under presumed prebiotic conditions, and readily form...
