47 citations · 55 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for
Showing 2022Show all
2 papers · 1 filter
physics.geo-ph2022
White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden
Vanessa Helmbrecht, Maximilian Weingart, Frieder Klein +2
Mechanisms of nucleic acid accumulation were likely critical to the emergence of life in the ferruginous oceans of the early Earth. How exactly prebiotic geological settings accumu…
physics.chem-ph2022
Selection of prebiotic oligonucleotides by cyclic phase separation
Giacomo Bartolucci, Adriana Calaça Serrão, Philipp Schwintek +7
The emergence of functional oligonucleotides on early Earth required a molecular selection mechanism to screen for specific sequences with prebiotic functions. Cyclic processes suc…