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- 1From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOrigins of life research is particularly challenging to communicate because of the tension between its many disciplines and its nearness to traditionally philosophical or religious questions. To authentically represent...
- 2From:BMC Microbiology (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Microbiome analysis generally requires PCR-based or metagenomic shotgun sequencing, sophisticated programs, and large volumes of data. Alternative approaches based on widely available RNA-seq data are...
- 3From:PLoS Computational Biology (Vol. 18, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedPrior work on abiogenesis, the emergence of life from non-life, suggests that it requires chemical reaction networks that contain self-amplifying motifs, namely, autocatalytic cores. However, little is known about how...
- 4From:Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (Vol. 74, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe principle of continuity in evolution is often violated by discontinuous saltations leading to "punctuations" in evolutionary history. Highly accurate cellular replication fidelity is a requirement for biological...
- 5From:Biology Direct (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The RNA world hypothesis cannot address most of the questions of the origin of life without violating the continuity principle (small Darwinian steps without foresight and miracles). Moreover, the RNA world...
- 6From:PLoS Computational Biology (Vol. 17, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe origin of life involved complicated evolutionary processes. Computer modeling is a promising way to reveal relevant mechanisms. However, due to the limitation of our knowledge on prebiotic chemistry, it is usually...
- 7From:Sociologus (Vol. 71, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed1. Introduction The current planetary crisis goes hand in hand with a critical deconstruction of the ontological foundations of Western modernity. A broad range of post-modern and post-colonial approaches have...
- 8From:Nature (Vol. 588, Issue 7837) Peer-ReviewedLiving things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox? Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules....
- 9From:Biology (Basel) (Vol. 9, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed(1) Background: Previous experimental observations and theoretical hypotheses have been providing insight into a hypothetical world where an RNA hairpin or ring may have debuted as the primary informational and...
- 10From:HTS Teologiese Studies (Vol. 76, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe building blocks and origins of life have fascinated scientists since the earliest of times. What is required for life to work in terms of building blocks? An outline of the building blocks that have to be present in...
- 11From:The Literary Review (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHOUGH ALL THE BEASTS HANG THEIR HEADS FROM HORIZONTAL BACKBONES AND STUDY THE EARTH BENEATH THEIR FEET, PROMETHEUS UPENDED MAN INTO THE VERTICAL-- SO TO COMPREHEND BALANCE. THEN TIPPED UP HIS CHIN SO TO WIDEN HIS...
- 12From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7772) Peer-ReviewedHalf-a-billion-year-old creature challenges theory that animals burst onto the scene in an abrupt event known as the Cambrian explosion. Half-a-billion-year-old creature challenges theory that animals burst onto the...
- 13From:Biochemistry (Moscow) (Vol. 84, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIt has been suggested that RNA polymerase ribozyme displaying reverse transcriptase and integrase activities has played a vital role in the origin of life on Earth. Here, we present a hypothesis that formation of...
- 14From:Nature (Vol. 572, Issue 7768) Peer-ReviewedAuthor Affiliations: A spire in a group of hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic Ocean. Some of life's building blocks might have formed on miniature bubbles at vents. Credit: IFE/URI-IAO/UW/NOAA/OAR/OER Carbonate...
- 15From:Nature (Vol. 572, Issue 7770) Peer-ReviewedEarth has been habitable for 4.3 billion years, and the earliest rock record indicates the presence of a microbial biosphere by at least 3.4 billion years ago--and disputably earlier. Possible traces of life can be...
- 16From:Nature (Vol. 572, Issue 7769) Peer-Reviewed'Lokiarchaea', previously known only from DNA, is isolated and grown in culture. 'Lokiarchaea', previously known only from DNA, is isolated and grown in culture. Author(s): Jonathan Lambert Author Affiliations:...
- 17From:Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (Vol. 71, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhether looking in this issue at the near future of artificial intelligence or at the distant past of origins, how we frame the discussion in time affects our evaluation of it. Let's take a moment to look at the bigger...
- 18From:Nature (Vol. 569, Issue 7756) Peer-ReviewedMysterious groups of archaea -- named after Loki and other Norse myths -- are stirring debate about the origin of complex creatures, including humans. Mysterious groups of archaea -- named after Loki and other Norse...
- 19From:Biology Direct (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground This essay highlights critical aspects of the plausibility of pre-Darwinian evolution. It is based on a critical review of some better-known open, far-from-equilibrium system-based scenarios supposed to...
- 20From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWe assembled three complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes), two of Solanum lycopersicum and one of Solanum pennellii, and analyzed their intra- and interspecific variations. The mitogenomes were 423,596-446,257 bp...