Analyses of molecules produced by model prebiotic reactions, such as those formed in the classic Miller-Urey experiment, allow us to better understand possible inventory of...

Prebiotic reactions and alternative milieus are being studied to determine molecules and conditions that might have functioned to support a rudimentary metabolism, including monomer polymerization...

Progressing from the identification of potential precursor molecules, research in this theme focuses on how proto-nucleic acids and proteins may have formed before the appearance of highly evolved...