Direct in-situ capture, separation and visualization of biological particles with fluid-screen in the context of venus life finder mission concept study

RE Weber, JJ Petkowski, MU Weber - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evidence of chemical disequilibria and other anomalous observations in the Venusian
atmosphere motivate the search for life within the planet's temperate clouds. To find signs of …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing the origins of life

TZ Jia, S Nishikawa, K Fujishima - BBA advances, 2022 - Elsevier
One goal of origins of life research is to understand how primitive informational and catalytic
biopolymers emerged and evolved. Recently, a number of sequencing techniques have …

Isolation and engineering of a Listeria grayi bacteriophage

S Erickson, J Paulson, M Brown, W Hahn, J Gil… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The lack of bacteriophages capable of infecting the Listeria species, Listeria grayi, is
academically intriguing and presents an obstacle to the development of bacteriophage …

Context is king: contextual emergence in network neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology

M Silberstein - From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Exploring …, 2022 - Springer
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Undefining life's biochemistry: implications for abiogenesis

S Freeland - Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the mid-twentieth century, multiple Nobel Prizes rewarded discoveries of a seemingly
universal set of molecules and interactions that collectively defined the chemical basis for …

Mobile CRISPR-Cas9 based anti-phage system in E. coli

Z Cao, Y Ma, B Jia, YJ Yuan - Frontiers of Chemical Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Escherichia coli is one of the most important microbial cell factories, but infection by
bacteriophages in the environment may have a huge impact on its application in industrial …

A non-canonical nucleotide from viral genomes interferes with the oxidative DNA damage repair system

AV Yudkina, AV Endutkin, EA Diatlova, DO Zharkov - DNA repair, 2024 - Elsevier
Oxidative damage is a major source of genomic instability in all organisms with the aerobic
metabolism. 8-Oxoguanine (8-oxoG), an abundant oxidized purine, is mutagenic and must …

[HTML][HTML] The small genome, virulent, non-contractile tailed bacteriophages that infect Enterobacteriales hosts

SR Casjens, AR Davidson, JH Grose - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
Tailed bacteriophages are abundant and extremely diverse. Understanding this diversity is a
challenge, and here we examine a small slice of that diversity in some detail. We contrast …

Incorporation of noncanonical base Z yields modified mRNA with minimal immunogenicity and improved translational capacity in mammalian cells

M Zhang, N Singh, ME Ehmann, L Zheng, H Zhao - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Chemically modified mRNAs hold great potential for therapeutic applications in vivo.
Currently, the base modification scheme largely preserves the canonical Watson-Crick base …

Enzymatic Synthesis of the Unnatural Nucleotide 2'‐Deoxyisoguanosine 5'‐Monophosphate

F Zhao, Y Wei, X Wang, Y Zhou, Y Tong… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Naturally occurring DNA contains four canonical bases, forming two Watson‐Crick base
pairs (adenine‐thymine, guanine‐cytosine). Efforts over the past decades have led to the …