How Droplets Can Accelerate Reactions─ Coacervate Protocells as Catalytic Microcompartments

IBA Smokers, BS Visser, AD Slootbeek… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Coacervates are droplets formed by liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) and
are often used as model protocells–primitive cell-like compartments that could have aided …

[HTML][HTML] On the emergence of autonomous chemical systems through dissipation kinetics

A Pross, R Pascal - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
This work addresses the kinetic requirements for compensating the entropic cost of self-
organization and natural selection, thereby revealing a fundamental principle in biology …

A Magnesium Binding Site And The Anomeric Effect Regulate The Abiotic Redox Chemistry Of Nicotinamide Nucleotides

L Sebastianelli, H Kaur, Z Chen… - … A European Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is a redox active molecule that is universally
found in biology. Despite the importance and simplicity of this molecule, few reports exist …

The Carbon-Based Evolutionary Theory (CBET)

JM Chen, JW Chen - 2024 - preprints.org
Why did unordered, simple substances on Earth evolve into orderly, complex, and diverse
organisms and social organizations? This is a fundamental scientific question that has …