There are three groups of scientists dominating the search for the origin of life: the organic
chemists (the Soup), the molecular biologists (RNA world), and the inorganic chemists …

The prebiotic replication of DNA and RNA is a complex interplay between chemistry and the
environment. Factors that have direct and indirect effects on prebiotic chemistry include …

Water is a problem in understanding chemical evolution towards life's origins on Earth.
Although all known life is being based on water key prebiotic reactions are inhibited by it …

The chemical composition of aqueous solutions during the Hadean era determined the
availability of essential elements for prebiotic synthesis of the molecular building blocks of …

Blackberry structure is a type of universal, stable, porous, single layered, hollow, spherical
supramolecular structure with sizes from tens to hundreds of nanometers self-assembled by …

Primitive cells are believed to have been self-assembled vesicular structures with minimal
metabolic components, that were capable of self-maintenance and self-propagation in early …

The principle of continuity posits that some central features of primordial biocatalytic
mechanisms should still be present in the genetically dependent pathway of protein …

One of the earliest living systems was likely based on RNA (" the RNA world"). Mineral
surfaces have been postulated to be an important environment for the prebiotic chemistry of …

Abstract (EN) Compartmentalisation and metabolism are two universal features observed
among all living organisms. Their emergence and harmonious functioning are considered …

We present exfoliation of a crystalline clay induced by the small carbon-chain amino acid,
gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), upon adsorption-desorption interaction. We …