OoL digest — December 29
This week we have 9 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Optical SETI at ESO in the 2040s
Ivanov — preprint
Biochemistry
A food chain of ribozymes built on an ancestral strand
Weiss et al. — preprint
Chemistry
Self-Assembly and Encapsulation Triggered by Aqueous Nucleotide Lipidation
Mozhegova et al. — preprint
Mathematical Biology
Quantifying the Emergence of Selection Prior to Biological Evolution
Jirasek et al. — preprint
The diverse effects of side reactions on the persistence of autocatalytic cycles
Peng et al. — preprint
Life as Non-Normal Chemical Accelerator
Sornette et al. — preprint
Microbiology
On the transitional character and regularity of planetary abiogenesis
Dolgikh — BioSystems
Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries
Vidal et al. — Microbial Biotechnology
Planetary Sciences
Raman Spectroscopy of Salt Deposits from the Simulated Subsurface Ocean of Enceladus
Takeshita et al. — preprint