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Apr. 13, 2023 —Origin-of-life chemists propose that glyoxylate could have been the original source of sugars on the 'prebiotic' ...
Feb. 10, 2023 —A team of scientists has discovered a new abiotic pathway for the formation of peptide chains from amino acids -- a key chemical step in the origin of life. The current study provides strong evidence ...
Oct. 24, 2022 —The mystery of the origin of hydrocarbons found in extraterrestrial environment may finally be resolved, thanks to a technique based on a 13C-13C abundance analysis. By measuring the abundance of ...
Oct. 11, 2021 —Fraudulent practices in food production, especially false claims of geographical origin, cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Botanists have now developed a model that can be used ...
Sep. 27, 2021 —The missing link isn't a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It's a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by researchers to represent the evolution of ...
Dec. 7, 2021 —Researchers create compelling scenario for the evolution of membraneless microdroplets as the origin of ...
June 27, 2022 —The 'missing link' between bacterial cells and human and plant cells offers key to the process of eukaryogenesis, the point at which animal and plant cells diverge from ...
Jan. 7, 2021 —By comparing thousands of bacterial genomes, scientists have traced back the evolutionary history of antibiotic resistance genes. In almost all cases where an origin could be determined, the gene ...
Nov. 12, 2020 —蛋白质是由相同的20倍amino acids. One of these, cysteine, was assumed not to have been present at the origin of life. In a new study, scientists have recreated how cysteine was ...
June 27, 2022 —Researchers have discovered the first viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life. The discovery offers tantalizing clues about the origins of complex ...