Articles

1. 2500 years ago scientific theories of the origin of life arose in ancient Greece

   • Julyan H. E. Cartwright

   Comment Open access 10 April 2024 Article: 1

   

2. Decorated Vesicles as Prebiont Systems (a Hypothesis)

   • Martin Fisk
   • Radu Popa

   Research 11 December 2023 Pages: 187 - 203

   

3. Enhancement of Prebiotic Peptide Formation in Cyclic Environments

   • Hayley Boigenzahn
   • Praful Gagrani
   • John Yin

   Research 28 October 2023 Pages: 157 - 173

   

4. Sequential Amplification of Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excess by Conglomerate and Racemic Compound: Plausible Prebiotic Route Towards Homochirality

   • A. Sharma

   Research 13 October 2023 Pages: 175 - 185

   

5. Did Salts in Seawater Play an Important Role in the Adsorption of Molecules on Minerals in the Prebiotic Earth? The Case of the Adsorption of Thiocyanate onto Forsterite-91

   • Giulio Wilgner Ferreira
   • Rafael Block Samulewski
   • Dimas Augusto Morozin Zaia

   Research 07 September 2023 Pages: 127 - 156

   

6. Parity Violation Energy Difference Calculation of Atropisomers

   • Dhanalakshmi Vadivel
   • Daniele Dondi

   Research Open access 14 June 2023 Pages: 61 - 69

   

7. Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Archean Stratospheric Oxygen: Enantiomeric Excess of Amino Acids Produced in Volcanic Plumes

   • A. Sharma

   Theoretical Research 06 June 2023 Pages: 71 - 86

   

8. The Possible Role of Anoxic Alkaline High Subcritical Water in the Formation of Ferric Minerals, Methane and Disordered Graphitic Carbon in a BARB3 Drilled Sample of the 3.4 Ga Buck Reef Chert

   • Marie-Paule Bassez

   Research Open access 16 August 2023 Pages: 1 - 41

   

9. Nonenzymatic Template-Directed Primer Extension Using 2′-3′ Cyclic Nucleotides Under Wet-Dry Cycles

   • Shikha Dagar
   • Susovan Sarkar
   • Sudha Rajamani

   Research 27 May 2023 Pages: 43 - 60

   

10. Behaviour and the Origin of Organisms

    • Matthew Egbert
    • Martin M. Hanczyc
    • Stuart Bartlett

    Research Open access 11 May 2023 Pages: 87 - 112

    

11. Glycine to Oligoglycine via Sequential Trimetaphosphate Activation Steps in Drying Environments

    • Hayley Boigenzahn
    • John Yin

    Prebiotic Chemistry 10 December 2022 Pages: 249 - 261

    

12. Thymine Adsorption onto Cation Exchanged Montmorillonite Clay: Role of Biogenic Divalent Metal Cations in Prebiotic Processes of Chemical Evolution

    • Satish Chandra Sati
    • Chandra Kala Pant
    • Yogesh Pandey

    Prebiotic Chemistry 24 November 2022 Pages: 233 - 247

    

13. Mathematical Models of Chiral Symmetry-breaking – A Review of General Theories, and Adiabatic Approximations of the APED System

    • Priscila C. Diniz
    • Jonathan A. D. Wattis
    • Fernando P. da Costa

    Origins of Biological Homochirality Open access 23 November 2022 Pages: 183 - 204

    

14. Evolutionary Approach to Biological Homochirality

    • Konstantin K. Konstantinov
    • Alisa F. Konstantinova

    Origins of Biological Homochirality Open access 18 November 2022 Pages: 205 - 232

    

15. Evaluating Mineral Lattices as Evolutionary Proxies for Metalloprotein Evolution

    • Kenneth N. McGuinness
    • Gunnar W. Klau
    • Vikas Nanda

    Theoretical Paper 16 November 2022 Pages: 263 - 275

    

16. Introduction to Origins of Biological Homochirality

    • Axel Brandenburg
    • David Hochberg

    ORIGINS OF BIOLOGICAL HOMOCHIRALITY 16 September 2022 Pages: 1 - 2

17. A Cofactor-Based Mechanism for the Origin of the Genetic Code

    • Juan A. Martínez Giménez
    • Rafael Tabares Seisdedos

    Theoretical Paper Open access 08 September 2022 Pages: 149 - 163

    

18. Symmetry Breaking by Consecutive Amplification: Efficient Paths to Homochirality

    • Laura Huber
    • Oliver Trapp

    Origins of Biological Homochirality Open access 19 August 2022 Pages: 75 - 91

    

19. Biological Homochirality and the Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures

    • Marcelo Gleiser

    Origins of Biological Homochirality 15 August 2022 Pages: 93 - 104

    

20. Asymmetric Autocatalysis as an Efficient Link Between the Origin of Homochirality and Highly Enantioenriched Compounds

    • Kenso Soai
    • Tsuneomi Kawasaki
    • Arimasa Matsumoto

    Origins of Biological Homochirality 12 August 2022 Pages: 57 - 74

    

21. Frontiers in Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments

    • Ulrich F. Müller
    • Jamie Elsila
    • Loren Dean Williams

    Workshop Report 07 July 2022 Pages: 165 - 181

22. Competitive interaction of Mn(II) and Fe(II) cations with the high-affinity Mn-binding site of the photosystem II: evolutionary aspect

    • E. R. Lovyagina
    • B. К. Semin

    Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis 07 July 2022 Pages: 113 - 128

    

23. On the Origin of Sugar Handedness: Facts, Hypotheses and Missing Links-A Review

    • R. Fernando Martínez
    • Louis A. Cuccia
    • Pedro Cintas

    Origins of Biological Homochirality 07 July 2022 Pages: 21 - 56

    

24. Spontaneous Emergence of Transient Chirality in Closed, Reversible Frank-like Deterministic Models

    • Thomas Buhse
    • Jean-Claude Micheau

    Origins of Biological Homochirality 10 June 2022 Pages: 3 - 20

    

25. Gaia as Solaris: An Alternative Default Evolutionary Trajectory

    • Srdja Janković
    • Ana Katić
    • Milan M. Ćirković

    Theoretical Astrobiology 20 April 2022 Pages: 129 - 147

    

26. Molecular Self-Assembly as a Trigger of Life Origin and Development

    • Dmitry V. Zlenko
    • Anatoly M. Zanin
    • Sergey V. Stovbun

    Molecular Self-Assembly 20 April 2022 Pages: 105 - 111

    

27. Ribozyme Mutagenic Evolution: Mechanisms of Survival

    • Carolina Diaz Arenas
    • Aleksandra Ardaševa
    • Yohei Yokobayashi

    Mechanisms of Primitive Evolution 07 January 2022 Pages: 321 - 339

    

28. The Effect of Goethites on the Polymerization of Glycine and Alanine Under Prebiotic Chemistry Conditions

    • João Paulo T. Baú
    • Cristine E. A. Carneiro
    • Dimas A. M. Zaia

    Prebiotic Chemistry 22 January 2022 Pages: 299 - 320

    

29. Computational Study of the Stability of Natural Amino Acid isomers

    • Stefano Crespi
    • Dhanalakshmi Vadivel
    • Daniele Dondi

    PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY 05 November 2021 Pages: 287 - 298

    

30. Does Stochasticity Favour Complexity in a Prebiotic Peptide-Micelle System?

    • Rowena Ball
    • John Brindley

    THEORETICAL PAPER 03 September 2021 Pages: 259 - 271

    

31. The Codon Usage in the Minimal Natural Cell

    • Piotr H. Pawłowski

    Evolution of the genetic code Open access 25 October 2021 Pages: 215 - 230

    

32. How the Geomagnetic Field Influences Life on Earth – An Integrated Approach to Geomagnetobiology

    • Weronika Erdmann
    • Hanna Kmita
    • Łukasz Kaczmarek

    ASTROBIOLOGY Open access 07 August 2021 Pages: 231 - 257

    

33. Plausible Emergence and Self Assembly of a Primitive Phospholipid from Reduced Phosphorus on the Primordial Earth

    • Michael O. Gaylor
    • Pere Miro
    • Vytis Karanauskus

    Prebiotic Chemistry 19 July 2021 Pages: 185 - 213

    

34. Quadruplex World

    • Besik Kankia

    THEORETICAL PAPER 02 July 2021 Pages: 273 - 286

    

35. Possible Ancestral Functions of the Genetic and RNA Operational Precodes and the Origin of the Genetic System

    • Juan A. Martínez-Giménez
    • Rafael Tabares-Seisdedos

    THEORETICAL PAPER 07 June 2021 Pages: 167 - 183

    

36. Emergent Bioanalogous Properties of Blockchain-based Distributed Systems

    • Oleg Abramov
    • Kirstin L. Bebell
    • Stephen J. Mojzsis

    THEORETICAL PAPER Open access 07 August 2021 Pages: 131 - 165

    

37. Role of the Interchangeable Cations on the Sorption of Fumaric and Succinic Acids on Montmorillonite and its Relevance in Prebiotic Chemistry

    • A. Meléndez-López
    • M. Colín-García
    • J. Cruz-Castañeda

    Prebiotic Chemistry 12 July 2021 Pages: 87 - 116

    

38. Histidine Self-assembly and Stability on Mineral Surfaces as a Model of Prebiotic Chemical Evolution: An Experimental and Computational Approach

    • D. Madrigal-Trejo
    • P.S. Villanueva-Barragán
    • A. Heredia-Barbero

    PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY 31 March 2021 Pages: 117 - 130

    

39. Did Cyclic Metaphosphates Have a Role in the Origin of Life?

    • Thomas Glonek

    PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY Open access 15 March 2021 Pages: 1 - 60

    

40. Correction to Volume 50 Issues 3–4

    • Springer Nature

    Publisher Correction 10 April 2021 Pages: 85 - 85

41. Molecular Adsorption on Cold Gas-Phase Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters of Chiral Molecules

    • Hiromori Murashima
    • Akimasa Fujihara

    ASTROCHEMISTRY 15 February 2021 Pages: 61 - 70

    

42. Toward Molecular Cooperation by De Novo Peptides

    • Izabela K. Sibilska-Kaminski
    • John Yin

    PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY 10 February 2021 Pages: 71 - 82

    

43. Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Peter Hand, Princeton University Press, 2020, 304 Pages

    • Peter R. Bahn

    BOOK REVIEW 05 January 2021 Pages: 83 - 84

44. Investigating the Evolution and Development of Biological Systems from the Perspective of Thermo-Kinetics and Systems Theory

    • Mohammad Amin Boojari

    EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 03 December 2020 Pages: 121 - 143

    

45. Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Large Peptide Systems

    • Konstantin K Konstantinov
    • Alisa F Konstantinova

    Origins of Chirality Open access 18 September 2020 Pages: 99 - 120

    

46. Plausibility of the Formose Reaction in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vent Environments

    • Arthur Omran

    Prebiotic Chemistry 15 September 2020 Pages: 113 - 125

    

47. Survival of the Halophilic Archaeon Halovarius luteus after Desiccation, Simulated Martian UV Radiation and Vacuum in Comparison to Bacillus atrophaeus

    • Niloofar Feshangsaz
    • Farid Semsarha
    • Jack J. W. A. van Loon

    ASTROBIOLOGY Open access 02 July 2020 Pages: 157 - 173

    

48. Parity Violation Energy of Biomolecules - V: Protein Metal Centers

    • Francesco Faglioni
    • Bianca Fracassini
    • Luca Perrone

    THEORETICAL PAPER 20 June 2020 Pages: 145 - 155

    

49. The Prebiotic Provenance of Semi-Aqueous Solvents

    • Jennifer L. Lago
    • Bradley T. Burcar
    • Matthew A. Pasek

    Prebiotic Chemistry Open access 09 May 2020 Pages: 1 - 14

    

50. Chirality Driven Twisting as a Driving Force of Primitive Folding in Binary Mixtures

    • Dmitry V. Zlenko
    • Aleksey A. Skoblin
    • Sergey V. Stovbun

    ORIGINS OF CHIRALITY 30 April 2020 Pages: 77 - 86