Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
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The origin of life is a fascinating, unresolved problem whose deciphering would have
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The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location
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The chemistry of abiotic nucleotide synthesis of RNA and DNA in the context of their
prebiotic origins on early earth is a continuing challenge. How did (or how can) the …

Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has
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Photochemistry of Organic Compounds: From Concepts to Practice provides a hands-on
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Aminotransferases (ATs) are pyridoxal 5′-phosphate–dependent enzymes that catalyze
the transamination reactions between amino acid donor and keto acid acceptor substrates …

During a systematic analysis of conserved gene context in prokaryotic genomes, a
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The Strecker reaction of aldehydes is the pre-eminent pathway to explain the prebiotic
origins of α-amino acids. However, biology employs transamination of α-ketoacids to …