Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies by Yamei Li, Norio Kitadai, Yasuhito Sekine, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yuko Nakano, Kristin Johnson-Finn

“…Researchers at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) discovered a chemical process that can explain the very low amino acid abundances in aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites, deepening our understanding on the Solar System chemical evolution.…”
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Phospholipid synthesis inside phospholipid membrane vesicles by Sumie Eto, Rumie Matsumura, Yasuhiro Shimane, Mai Fujimi, Samuel Berhanu, Takeshi Kasama, Yutetsu Kuruma

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The Origin of Earth's Mantle Nitrogen: Primordial or Early Biogeochemical Cycling? by H. Kurokawa, M. Laneuville, Y. Li, N. Zhang, Y. Fujii, H. Sakuraba, C. Houser, H. J. Cleaves II

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High-pressure phase transitions of anorthosite crust in the Earth's deep mantle by Masayuki Nishi, Steeve Gréaux, Shigehiko Tateno, Yasuhiro Kuwayama, Kenji Kawai, Tetsuo Irifune, Shigenori Maruyama

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Increasing complexity of primitive compartments by Tony Z. Jia, Yutetsu Kuruma

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Origin of the Reductive Tricarboxylic Acid (rTCA) Cycle-Type CO2 Fixation: A Perspective by Norio Kitadai, Masafumi Kameya, Kosuke Fujishima

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Large planets may not form fractionally large moons by Miki Nakajima, Hidenori Genda, Erik Asphaug, Shigeru Ida

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Protoenzymes: The Case of Hyperbranched Polymer-Scaffolded ZnS Nanocrystals by Irena Mamajanov, Melina Caudan, Tony Z. Jia

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Why primordial continents were recycled to the deep: Role of subduction erosion by S. Azuma, S. Yamamoto, H. Ichikawa, S. Maruyama

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Surface force analysis of glycine adsorption on different crystal surfaces of titanium dioxide (TiO2) by Narangerel Ganbaatar, Kanae Imai, Taka-aki Yano, Masahiko Hara

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Erratum: Guttenberg et al. Classification of the Biogenicity of Complex Organic Mixtures for the Detection of Extraterrestrial Life. <i>Life</i> 2021, <i>11</i>, 234 by Nicholas Guttenberg, Huan Chen, Tomohiro Mochizuki, H. James Cleaves

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Magnesium silicate chimneys at the Strytan hydrothermal field, Iceland, as analogues for prebiotic chemistry at alkaline submarine hydrothermal vents on the early Earth by Carlos Gutiérrez-Ariza, Laura M. Barge, Yang Ding, Silvana S. S. Cardoso, Shawn Erin McGlynn, Ryuhei Nakamura, Donato Giovanelli, Roy Price, Hye Eun Lee, F. Javier Huertas, C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz, Julyan H. E. Cartwright

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Chemical Diversity of Metal Sulfide Minerals and Its Implications for the Origin of Life by Yamei Li, Norio Kitadai, Ryuhei Nakamura

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Polyesters as a Model System for Building Primitive Biologies from Non-Biological Prebiotic Chemistry by Kuhan Chandru, Irena Mamajanov, H. James Cleaves, Tony Z. Jia

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Origin of Species before Origin of Life: The Role of Speciation in Chemical Evolution by Tony Z. Jia, Melina Caudan, Irena Mamajanov

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Recognition and Classification of Martian Chaos Terrains Using Imagery Machine Learning: A Global Distribution of Chaos Linked to Groundwater Circulation, Catastrophic Flooding, an... by Hiroki Shozaki, Yasuhito Sekine, Nicholas Guttenberg, Goro Komatsu

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Early Water Delivery to Terrestrial Planet Regions during the Stages of Jupiter’s Formation and Migration in the Grand Tack Model by Masahiro Ogihara, Hidenori Genda, Yasuhito Sekine

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Distant Formation and Differentiation of Outer Main Belt Asteroids and Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent Bodies by H. Kurokawa, T. Shibuya, Y. Sekine, B. L. Ehlmann, F. Usui, S. Kikuchi, M. Yoda

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Recent Advances in Origins of Life Research by Biophysicists in Japan by Tony Z. Jia, Yutetsu Kuruma

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Single-Cell Genomics of Novel Actinobacteria With the Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway Discovered in a Serpentinizing System by Nancy Merino, Nancy Merino, Nancy Merino, Mikihiko Kawai, Mikihiko Kawai, Eric S. Boyd, Daniel R. Colman, Shawn E. McGlynn, Shawn E. McGlynn, Shawn E. McGlynn, Kenneth H. Nealson, Ken Kurokawa, Ken Kurokawa, Yuichi Hongoh, Yuichi Hongoh

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