OoL digest — July 10 edition
This week we have 13 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Microelectronic Morphogenesis: Progress towards Artificial Organisms
McCaskill et al. – preprint
Astrobiology
Planetary Protection Implementation and Verification Approach for the Mars 2020 Mission
Cooper et al. – Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Analogous response of temperate terrestrial exoplanets and Earth’s climate dynamics to greenhouse gas supplement
Hochman et al. – preprint
Biochemistry
Does ribosome composition maximize growth rate? The role of RNA instability
Széliová et al. – preprint
Missing-link fold reveals the evolutionary pathway between RNA polymerase and ribosomal proteins
Yagi et al. – preprint
Chemical physics
Exactly solvable toy model of autocatalysis: Irreversible relaxation after a quantum quench
Merlin – Physical Review E
Geosciences
Partitioning of Fe2+ and Fe3+ between bridgmanite and silicate melt: Implications for redox evolution of the Earth’s mantle
Kuwahara et al. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions
Kuwahara et al. – Nature Geoscience
I/Pu reveals Earth mainly accreted from volatile-poor differentiated planetesimals
Liu et al. – Science Advances
What is mineral informatics?
Prabhu et al. – American Mineralogist
Microbiology
Evolution of a minimal cell
Moger-Reischer et al. – Nature
Planetary sciences
The Effect of Dust Evolution and Traps on Inner Disk Water Enrichment
Kalyaan et al. – preprint
An inflationary disk phase to explain extended protoplanetary dust disks
Marschall et al. – preprint