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On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life
Despite more than one hundred years of work on organosilicon chemistry, the basis for the plausibility of silicon-based life has never been systematically addressed nor objectively reviewed. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the possibility of silicon-based biochemistry, based on a review of...
Autores principales: | Petkowski, Janusz Jurand, Bains, William, Seager, Sara |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32532048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10060084 |
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