OoL digest — May 22 edition
This week we have 13 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Capturing Emerging Complexity in Lenia
Jain et al. – preprint
Astrobiology
Astrophysical parameters of M dwarfs with exoplanets
Cifuentes – preprint
Constraining the Thickness of the Atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 b from its JWST Secondary Eclipse Observation
Ih et al. – preprint
Applying Novel Techniques from Physical and Biological Sciences to Life Detection
Jia et al. – Space: Science & Technology
An Accounting of Contamination Control Requirements, Implementation, and Verification of the Sample Tubes for the Mars 2020 Mission and Future Return Sample Science
Maltais et al. – Astrobiology
Theoretical Study on the Potential Existing Forms and Microwave Rotational Spectrum of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Interstellar Space
Mu et al. – preprint
JWST Will Hunt for Dead Solar Systems—and Much More—in Its Second Year of Science
O’Callaghan – Scientific American
Biochemistry
Metabolic homeostasis and growth in abiotic cells
Akbari et al. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Biology
Reconstructing cell type evolution across species through cell phylogenies of single-cell RNAseq data
Mah et al. – preprint
Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of code biology
Prinz – Biosystems
Microbiology
De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity
Bozdag et al. – Nature
Structurally distinct mitoviruses: are they an ancestral lineage of the Mitoviridae exclusive to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycotina)?
Ezawa et al. – mBio
Synthetic biology
Mechanochemical feedback loop drives persistent motion of liposomes
Fu et al. – Nature Physics