The origin of life is a fascinating, unresolved problem whose deciphering would have
important scientific, epistemological and social implications. Over time, philosophers and …

There are many reasons to report on silica interacting with biomolecules. The most obvious
one is that on the Earth's crust, oxygen and silicon are the most abundant atomic species …

This book is about the most complete work on the subject of clay minerals thus far
conceived. Its scope is one of basics to general principles to use in real geologic situations …

The present paper offers a review of recent (post-1980) work on amino acid adsorption and
thermal reactivity on oxide and sulfide minerals. This review is performed in the general …

Oligomerization of a peptide was attempted in a flow reactor that simulated a submarine
hydrothermal system. When fluid containing glycine repeatedly circulated through the hot …

Organic molecules are widely present in the dense interstellar medium, and many have
been synthesized in the laboratory on Earth under the conditions typical for an interstellar …

Some seventy years ago, John Desmond Bernal proposed a role for clays in the origin of
life. While much research has since been dedicated to the study of silicate clays, layered …

Abstract The Yamato-791198 and Murchison carbonaceouschondrites were analyzed for
dipeptides anddiketopiperazines as well as amino acids and hydantoins bygas …

Formamide, H 2 NCHO, represents the simplest molecule containing the peptide bond.
Consequently, the formamide molecule is of high interest as it is considered an important …

The demonstration that ribosomal peptide synthesis is a ribozyme-catalyzed reaction does
not establish that amino acids and peptides have been useless and/or missing in an RNA …