OoL digest — edition 12
Greetings from Montreal! A lot of amazing new research out this week – and part of it comes from OoLEN members! First, I’ve included the current issue of the Santa Fe Institute podcast where Natalie Grefenstette talks about agnostic biosignature detection. In biochemistry, OoLEN members Silke Asche and Cole Mathis coauthored a paper on automating Origin of Life experiments and Tony Jia published one on compartmentalization. In biophysics, Akbari suggests a set of physico-chemical constraints for living systems, Dye looks at tissue self-organization in the Drosophila and Stolar analyzes mechanochemical peptide bond formation. Finally, in planetary science, Martin revisits water formation on Earth and Nibauer looks at the dependance of planetary systems on stellar chemical abundance patterns. Happy reading !!
Astrobiology
Agnostic Biosignature Detection – Grefenstette – Santa Fe Institute podcast
Biochemistry
A robotic prebiotic chemist probes long term reactions of complexifying mixtures – Asche et al. – Nature Communications
Incorporation of Basic α-Hydroxy Acid Residues into Primitive Polyester Microdroplets for RNA Segregation – Jia et al. – Biomacromolecules
Biophysics
The quantitative metabolome is shaped by abiotic constraints – Akbari et al. – Nature Communications
Self-organized patterning of cell morphology via mechanosensitive feedback – Dye et al. – eLife
Mechanochemical Prebiotic Peptide Bond Formation – Stolar et al. – Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Planetary science
How much water was delivered from the asteroid belt to the Earth after its formation? – Martin et al. – preprint
Statistics of the Chemical Composition of Solar Analog Stars and Links to Planet Formation – Nibauer et al. – The Astrophysical Journal