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A World in a Test Tube: Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists...
A specialized laboratory at JPL, designed to eliminate the chemical influence of modern organisms, allows scientists to investigate the chemistry that may have given rise...
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Ancient Proteins Offer New Clues About the Origin of Life on Earth
Researchers have used laboratory simulations to recreate the conditions of early Earth and have discovered that the evolution of ancient proteins into all forms of...
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The Far-Flung Origin of Life’s Building Blocks: Researchers Uncover...
Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life, through the...
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Unveiling the Catalyst of Life: The Unexpected Role of Sulfate
A recent research study may have discovered a missing link that helps explain Earth’s uniquely oxygen-saturated atmosphere and the corresponding evolution of animal life on...
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Meteoritic and Volcanic Particles May Have Promoted Origin of Life Reactions...
Chemical reactions driven by iron-laden particles from meteorites or volcanic outbursts might have led to the formation of molecules needed for the origin of life...
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Exploring the Origins of Life – Scientists Propose Alternative Model
A new model helps to understand the self-organization of molecules into living structures. One potential hypothesis for the emergence of life involves the self-assembling of...
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The Unsolved Enigma of the Origin of Life: A New Strategy
Despite years of advancements, the origin of life continues to be one of science’s most enduring mysteries. “The most basic features of biology, that organisms...
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Scientists Unveil Urea’s Secret Role in the Origin of Life
Scientists from ETH Zurich and the University of Geneva have developed a new technique that allows them to observe chemical reactions taking place in liquids...
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How Did Life on Earth Originate? New Technology Provides Novel Insights
A new technology has provided novel insights into the long-standing mystery: how did life on Earth originate? Before life emerged on our planet, during what...
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Princeton Scientists Discover Overlooked Parts of Proteins That Are Critical...
Recent research shows that proteins’ intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are critical for chromatin regulation and gene expression. Mutations in these IDRs affect cellular functions, especially...
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The Amyloid Hypothesis: Rewriting Life’s Origin Story
The question of how living organisms emerged from non-living matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in science. Despite numerous theories, a conclusive explanation...
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New Findings From the James Webb Telescope Suggests That Life Could Have...
New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a surprising abundance of oxygen in the early Universe. Researchers discovered that oxygen levels in galaxies...
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Unraveling the Origins of Life – Scientists Discover “Key Organic Molecules”...
Newcastle University scientists, supported by the UK’s Natural Environmental Research Council, have been delving into the mystery of life’s emergence on Earth over 3.5 billion...
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Soda Lakes: The Missing Link in the Origin of Life?
Charles Darwin suggested the possibility of life originating in a “warm little pond” with a suitable mix of chemicals and energy. New research conducted by...
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New Clues to the First Life on Earth – Researchers Uncover 3.42...
The research team has discovered complex microbial communities in ecosystems dating back over 3 billion years. Microorganisms are believed to be Earth’s earliest life forms,...
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New Research Reveals That Complex Green Organisms Emerged a Billion Years Ago
OK A research team at Göttingen University is leading an investigation into the emergence of multicellularity. Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have...
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Birth of Life’s Building Blocks: New Study Synthesizes Key Compound in Lab
A new study led by researchers at UCL has successfully synthesized a chemical compound in the laboratory under conditions that could have existed on early...
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Primordial Magnetism: The Hidden Force Behind Life’s Origin
The phenomenon known as homochirality of life, which refers to the exclusive presence of biomolecules in one of their two possible mirror-image configurations within living...
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Scientists Uncover New Clues Regarding the Origin of Life on Earth Inside the...
From the vast expanse of interstellar space to the minute realm of atoms: researchers harness advanced microscopes to uncover the chemical and molecular fingerprints of...
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New Phospholipid Discovery Rewrites the Story of the Origin of Life
Recent discovery of a new phospholipid narrows the gap in understanding how primordial cells emerged during origin of life. Approximately 4 billion years ago, Earth...
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Sulfur’s Secret Role in the Origin of Life – Scientists Unveil Prebiotic Secrets
A study led by the University of Arizona highlights sulfur, a widely recognized chemical element that has intriguingly defied scientific attempts to understand its role...
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From Chaos to Life: Unraveling Nature’s Ancient Molecular Kitchen
Life is complicated. What is true for our everyday existence also holds for the many complex processes that take place inside cells. Proteins are continuously...
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Decoding the Origin of Life: Scientists Solve Early Earth RNA Puzzle
Recent research illustrates how RNA molecules’ chemical characteristics might have played a crucial role in the development of complex life forms. How did complex life...
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Paradoxical Mechanisms Uncovered – Chemists Have Filled a Major Gap in the...
Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions, akin to the left and right versions of...
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