OoL digest — May 20 edition
This week we have 23 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Formation of N-bearing complex organic molecules in molecular clouds: Ketenimine, acetonitrile, acetaldimine, and vinylamine via the UV photolysis of C$_2$H$_2$ ice
Chuang et al. — preprint
Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds
Fonseca Coelho et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Direct Observation of Gas-Phase Hydroxymethylene: Photoionization and Kinetics Resulting from Methanol Photodissociation
Hockey et al. — Journal of the American Chemical Society
Analytical capability of K-Ar isochron dating on Mars: assessment from mineral compositions of Martian meteorites
Hyuga et al. — preprint
Laboratory characterization of hydrothermally processed oligopeptides in ice grains emitted by Enceladus and Europa
Khawaja et al. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
ExoplANETS-A: A VO database for host stars and planetary systems: The effect of XUV on planet atmospheres
Morales-Calderón et al. — preprint
Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
Suazo et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Synthesis of 13C-depleted organic matter from CO in a reducing early Martian atmosphere
Ueno et al. — Nature Geoscience
Biology
Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans
Gutarra et al. — Current Biology
Stochastic parabolic growth promotes coexistence and a relaxed error threshold in RNA-like replicator populations
Paczkó et al. — eLife
Selectively advantageous instability in biotic and pre-biotic systems and implications for evolution and aging
Tower — Frontiers in Aging
Biophysics
Competition between Self-Assembly and Phase Separation Governs High-Temperature Condensation of a DNA Liquid
Hegde et al. — Physical Review Letters
Chemistry
Two mechanisms for the spontaneous emergence, execution, and reprogramming of chemical logic circuits
Peng et al. — Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
Hydrothermal sulfidation of biogenic magnetite produces framboid-like pyrite
Runge et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Low-temperature formation of pyridine and (iso)quinoline via neutral–neutral reactions
Yang et al. — Nature Astronomy
Computational biology
Case Study of Novelty, Complexity, and Adaptation in a Multicellular System
Moreno et al. — preprint
Mathematical biology
Biomathematical enzyme kinetics model of prebiotic autocatalytic RNA networks: degenerating parasite-specific hyperparasite catalysts confer parasite resistance and herald the birth of molecular immunity
Conrad et al. — preprint
Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: repeated transitions between unicellularity and differentiated multicellularity
Libby et al. — preprint
Microbiology
Preservation of Bacillus subtilis’ cellular liquid state at deep sub-zero temperatures in perchlorate brines
Gault et al. — Communications Biology
Phylogenomics
Phylogenomics of neglected flagellated protists supports a revised eukaryotic tree of life
Torruella et al. — preprint
Physics
Asymmetric Warm Dark Matter: from Cosmological Asymmetry to Chirality of Life
Yin et al. — preprint
Synthetic biology
Slow freeze-thaw cycles enhanced hybridization of kilobase DNA with long complementary sticky ends
Noda et al. — ChemSystemsChem
Building Synthetic Cells─From the Technology Infrastructure to Cellular Entities
Rothschild et al. — ACS Synthetic Biology