OoL digest — November 27 edition
This week we have 7 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Emergence of autopoietic vesicles able to grow, repair and reproduce in a minimalist particle system
Cabaret – preprint
Astrobiology
Constraining Background N2 Inventories on Directly Imaged Terrestrial Exoplanets to Rule Out O2 False Positives
Hall et al. – The Astronomical Journal
Biochemistry
The 3 31 Nucleotide Minihelix tRNA Evolution Theorem and the Origin of Life
Lei et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)
On the Emergence of Autonomous Chemical Systems through Dissipation Kinetics
Pross et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)
Biology
Molecular diversity and evolution of far-red light-acclimated photosystem I
Gisriel et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science
Chemistry
Binding of precursors to replicator assemblies can improve replication fidelity and mediate error correction
Markovitch et al. – preprint
Microbiology
ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life
Mahendrarajah et al. – Nature Communications