2 papers
q-bio.BM2026
Elemental Stoichiometry as an Ecological Biosignature with Applications to Life Detection
Pilar C. Vergeli, Cole Mathis, John F. Malloy +5
The vast chemical space of possible small molecules, estimated at 10^60 compounds for molecules composed of just C, N, O, and S, is only sparsely occupied by biology. We propose th…
q-bio.MN2025
The Emergence of Chirality from Metabolism
John F. Malloy, Camerian Millsaps, Kamesh Narasimhan +4
Molecular chirality is critical to biochemical function, but it is unknown when chiral selectivity first became important in the evolutionary transition from geochemistry to bioche…