Open questions in understanding life’s origins

The chemical space of prebiotic chemistry is extremely large, while extant biochemistry uses only a few thousand interconnected molecules. Here we discuss how the connection between these two regimes can be investigated, and explore major outstanding questions in the origin of life.

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Autores principales: Butch, Christopher J., Meringer, Markus, Gagnon, Jean-Sebastien, Cleaves, H. James
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9814640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36697508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00448-8
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spelling pubmed-98146402023-01-10 Open questions in understanding life’s origins Butch, Christopher J. Meringer, Markus Gagnon, Jean-Sebastien Cleaves, H. James Commun Chem Comment The chemical space of prebiotic chemistry is extremely large, while extant biochemistry uses only a few thousand interconnected molecules. Here we discuss how the connection between these two regimes can be investigated, and explore major outstanding questions in the origin of life. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9814640/ /pubmed/36697508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00448-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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