Prebiotic chemistry aims to explain how the biochemistry of life as we know it came to be.
Most efforts in this area have focused on provisioning compounds of importance to life by …

Perturbations in iron homeostasis and iron accumulation feature in several
neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) …

The fundamental roles that peptides and proteins play in today's biology makes it almost
indisputable that peptides were key players in the origin of life. Insofar as it is appropriate to …

Biomimetic science has attracted great interest in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials
science, and energy. Biomimetic mineralization is the process of synthesizing inorganic …

This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

Infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, particularly Gram-negative organisms, are
increasingly difficult to treat using antibiotics. A potential alternative is “phage therapy”, in …

Peptide biosynthesis is performed by ribosomes and several other classes of enzymes, but a
simple chemical synthesis may have created the first peptides at the origins of life. α …

ATP is universally conserved as the principal energy currency in cells, driving metabolism
through phosphorylation and condensation reactions. Such deep conservation suggests that …

Recent developments in Origins of Life research have focused on substantiating the
narrative of an abiotic emergence of nucleic acids from organic molecules of low molecular …

The field of free radical biology originated with the discovery of superoxide dismutase (SOD)
in 1969. Over the last 5 decades, a plethora of research has been performed in species …