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Radiolysis generates a complex organosynthetic chemical network by Adam, Zachary R., Fahrenbach, Albert C., Jacobson, Sofia M., Kacar, Betul, Zubarev, Dmitry Yu

“…The architectural features of cellular life and its ecologies at larger scales are built upon foundational networks of reactions between molecules that avoid a…”
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Estimating the capacity for production of formamide by radioactive minerals on the prebiotic Earth by Adam, Zachary R., Hongo, Yayoi, Cleaves, H. James, Yi, Ruiqin, Fahrenbach, Albert C., Yoda, Isao, Aono, Masashi

“…Water creates special problems for prebiotic chemistry, as it is thermodynamically favorable for amide and phosphodiester bonds to hydrolyze. The availability…”
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Prebiotic Reaction Networks in Water by Tran, Quoc Phuong, Adam, Zachary R, Fahrenbach, Albert C

“…A prevailing strategy in origins of life studies is to explore how chemistry constrained by hypothetical prebiotic conditions could have led to molecules and…”
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The modular biochemical reaction network structure of cellular translation by Cuevas-Zuviría, Bruno, Fer, Evrim, Adam, Zachary R., Kaçar, Betül

“…Translation is an essential attribute of all living cells. At the heart of cellular operation, it is a chemical information decoding process that begins with…”
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Prebiotic Geochemical Automata at the Intersection of Radiolytic Chemistry, Physical Complexity, and Systems Biology by Aono, Masashi, Kacar, Betul, Fahrenbach, Albert C., Adam, Zachary R.

“…The tractable history of life records a successive emergence of organisms composed of hierarchically organized cells and greater degrees of individuation. The…”
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Two mechanisms for the spontaneous emergence, execution, and reprogramming of chemical logic circuits by Peng, Zhen, Adam, Zachary R.

“…A key question in origin-of-life research is how primitive life or life-like systems obtained reusable and reprogrammable machinery of processing information…”
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A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships: Comment on “Unified representation of life's basic properties by a 3-species stochastic cubic autocatalytic reaction-diffusion system of equations”, by A.P. Muñuzuri and J. Pérez-Mercader by Adam, Zachary R.

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Assessment of Stoichiometric Autocatalysis across Element Groups by Peng, Zhen, Adam, Zachary R., Fahrenbach, Albert C., Kaçar, Betül

“…Autocatalysis has been proposed to play critical roles during abiogenesis. These proposals are at odds with a limited number of known examples of abiotic (and,…”
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Informatic Capabilities of Translation and Its Implications for the Origins of Life by Cuevas-Zuviría, Bruno, Adam, Zachary R., Goldman, Aaron D., Kaçar, Betül

“…The ability to encode and convert heritable information into molecular function is a defining feature of life as we know it. The conversion of information into…”
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A continuous reaction network that produces RNA precursors by Yi, Ruiqin, Tran, Quoc Phuong, Ali, Sarfaraz, Yoda, Isao, Adam, Zachary R., Cleaves, H. James, Fahrenbach, Albert C.

“…Continuous reaction networks, which do not rely on purification or timely additions of reagents, serve as models for chemical evolution and have been…”
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Earliest Photic Zone Niches Probed by Ancestral Microbial Rhodopsins by Sephus, Cathryn D., Fer, Evrim, Garcia, Amanda K., Adam, Zachary R., Schwieterman, Edward W., Kacar, Betul

“…Abstract For billions of years, life has continuously adapted to dynamic physical conditions near the Earth’s surface. Fossils and other preserved…”
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Temperature oscillations near natural nuclear reactor cores and the potential for prebiotic oligomer synthesis by Adam, Zachary R.

“…Geologic settings capable of driving prebiotic oligomer synthesis reactions remain a relatively unexplored aspect of origins of life research. Natural nuclear…”
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Resurrected Rubisco suggests uniform carbon isotope signatures over geologic time by Kędzior, Mateusz, Garcia, Amanda K., Li, Meng, Taton, Arnaud, Adam, Zachary R., Young, Jodi N., Kaçar, Betül

“…The earliest geochemical indicators of microbes—and the enzymes that powered them—extend back ∼3.8 Ga on Earth. Paleobiologists often attempt to understand…”
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Radiolytic Synthesis of Cyanogen Chloride, Cyanamide and Simple Sugar Precursors by Yi, Ruiqin, Hongo, Yayoi, Yoda, Isao, Adam, Zachary R., Fahrenbach, Albert C.

“…Chemical evolution, from simple molecules to complex systems, is fundamental to modern origins of life research, and complex reaction networks are often…”
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A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships by Adam, Zachary R.

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Use the water: In-situ resource technology for icy-surface landers by Som, Sanjoy M., Adam, Zachary R., Vance, Steve

“…Robotic landers serve vital reconnaissance roles in the exploration of planetary surfaces, but are constrained by deliverable payload size and environment…”
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