1. Editorial Note

   Editorial Commentary Pages: 1 - 2

2. RNA Bound to a Solid Phase can Select an Amino Acid and Facilitate Subsequent Amide Bond Formation

   • Anthony Mellersh
   • Alan-Shaun Wilkinson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 7

3. The Stability of Some Selected Amino Acids Under Attempted Redox Constrained Hydrothermal Conditions

   • Eva Andersson
   • Nils G. Holm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 23

4. Inhibition of Rare Earth Catalytic Activity by Proteins

   • Mitsuhiko Akaboshi
   • Yoshiko Tanaka
   • Noriko Fujii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 32

5. Sugars as the Optimal Biosynthetic Carbon Substrate of Aqueous Life Throughout the Universe

   • Arthur L. Weber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 43

6. Polyphosphorylation and Non-Enzymatic Template-Directed Ligation of Oligonucleotides

   • Kui Gao
   • Leslie E. Orgel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 51

7. The Possible Role of Volcanic Aquifers in Prebiologic Genesis of Organic Compounds and RNA

   • John Washington

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 79

8. Self-programmable, Self-assembling Two-dimensional Genetic Matter

   • Stephen J. Sowerby
   • Peter A. Stockwell
   • George B. Petersen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 99