Emergence of metabolic-like cycles in blockchain-orchestrated reaction networks

R Roszak, A Wołos, M Benke, Ł Gleń, J Konka… - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
This theoretical work harnesses the power of an open-access, blockchain-based platform for
distributed computing to generate the largest-known network of prebiotic reactions and then …

[HTML][HTML] Two mechanisms for the spontaneous emergence, execution, and reprogramming of chemical logic circuits

Z Peng, ZR Adam - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
A key question in origin-of-life research is how primitive life or life-like systems obtained
reusable and reprogrammable machinery of processing information to respond to various …

Combined Network and High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Analysis of the Formose Reaction Reveals Mechanisms for Emergent Behaviors

R Cruz-Simbron, S Sharma, A Arya, J Ray, A Lozano… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
The formose reaction (FR) autocatalytically converts simple plausibly prebiotic feedstocks
into molecules of biological interest, including ribose. Autocatalysis is a hallmark of life, thus …