Tag: prebiotic chemistry

A new hypothesis paper proposes that abiotically generated polyols, rather than glycerol phosphates or glycolipids, served as the first membrane ...

A new theoretical model proposes that minimal cells may have arisen not by assembling components but as the self-renewing residue ...

A computational study proposes that methylated sulfur rings within magnesium and silver matrices could template proto-cell membranes and division, though ...

A new conceptual framework proposes that the emergence of metabolic roles may have depended on chemical exchanges between hydrothermal vents, ...

A new Frontiers Research Topic gathers foundational, mechanistic, and translational studies probing whether quantum coherence, tunneling, and spin dynamics shape ...

New X-ray spectroscopy of Hayabusa2 samples reveals that water inside the asteroid Ryugu was far less salty, far more alkaline, ...

A quantum tunneling nanogap sensor combined with machine learning can distinguish left- and right-handed amino acids one molecule at a ...

A new global model shows that rainfall on warm early Mars likely deposited formaldehyde, a key prebiotic building block, most ...

Researchers report that inorganic sulfur is rapidly and spontaneously converted into organosulfur compounds inside atmospheric microdroplets, suggesting a pervasive new ...

Chemists have shown that a phosphate group can migrate on its own along glycerol and inositol scaffolds through a self-sustaining ...