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Decay Pathways of Thymine Revisited

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The ultraviolet habitable zone of exoplanets

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Role of stellar physics in regulating the critical steps for life

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UV absorption spectra of DNA bases in the 350–190 nm range: assignment and state specific analysis of solvation effects

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Excited state dynamics of 7-deazaguanosine and guanosine 5′-monophosphate

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UV‐Induced Charge‐Transfer States in Short Guanosine‐Containing DNA Oligonucleotides

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Characterizing Conical Intersections in DNA/RNA Nucleobases with Multiconfigurational Wave Functions of Varying Active Space Size

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The Photophysics of Nucleic Acids: Consequences for the Emergence of Life

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Effect of UV Radiation on Fluorescent RNA Aptamers’ Functional and Templating Ability

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Spatial and Temporal Resolution of the Oxygen-Independent Photoinduced DNA Interstrand Cross-Linking by a Nitroimidazole Derivative

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Ultraviolet-Driven Deamination of Cytidine Ribonucleotides Under Planetary Conditions

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Revisiting the spectroscopy of xanthine derivatives: theobromine and theophylline

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Excited-State Dynamics of Isocytosine: A Hybrid Case of Canonical Nucleobase Photodynamics

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Do-Nothing Prebiotic Chemistry: Chemical Kinetics as a Window into Prebiotic Plausibility

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Nucleobases in Meteorites to Nucleobases in RNA and DNA?

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A universal converting strategy based on target-induced DNA nanoprobe conformational change for lead (II) ion assay

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Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics studies on excited state decay pathways of 5-azacytosine in aqueous solution

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Electronic spectroscopy of gemcitabine and derivatives for possible dual-action photodynamic therapy applications

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Star-Planet Interactions and Habitability: Radiative Effects

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Resolving Ultrafast Photoinitiated Dynamics of the Hachimoji 5‐aza‐7‐deazaguanine Nucleobase: Impact of Synthetically Expanding the Genetic Alphabet†

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Ultrafast Excited-State Deactivation of the Bacterial Pigment Violacein

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Hydroxyl Radical Addition to Thymine and Cytosine and Photochemistry of the Adducts at the C6 Position

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Revealing the reaction path of UVC bond rupture in cyclic disulfides with ultrafast x-ray scattering

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A 3R (remove-remodel-repair)-integrated self-assembled Chlorella-gelatin-PEG hydrogel for diabetic wound healing

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On-the-fly simulations of transient absorption pump–probe spectra: Combining mapping dynamics with doorway-window protocol

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Photochemistry of 2-thiooxazole: a plausible prebiotic precursor to RNA nucleotides

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A possible origin of life in nonpolar environments

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Origin of the RNA World in Cold Hadean Geothermal Fields Enriched in Zinc and Potassium: Abiogenesis as a Positive Fallout from the Moon-Forming Impact?

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DNA Photodamage and Repair: Computational Photobiology in Action

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Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of promising nucleobase ancestor 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine

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UV resistance of nucleosides - an experimental approach

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3-Methylation alters excited state decay in photoionised uracil

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