Protocells and RNA Self-Replication

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1. Accurate phenotypic self-replication as a necessary cause for biological evolution.
   SEYMOUR J. GARTE · 2024 · Biosystems
2. The Evolutionary Transition of the RNA World to Obcells to Cellular-Based Life
   Patrick B. F. O’Connor · 2024 · Journal of Molecular Evolution
3. Plant Sentience
   Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
4. Analysis of Inner Content and Phospholipid Membrane Fusion during Two Step Freezing Induced Liposome Fusion
   Yusuke Agaki, Rin Maeda, Shintaro Motoyama, Kazumasa Hirogaki, Masaya Oki, Gakushi Tsuji · 2026 · ACS Omega
5. Circular at the very beginning: on the initial genomes in the RNA world
   Yufan Luo, Minglun Liang, Chunwu Yu, Wentao Ma · 2024 · RNA Biology
6. The Virtual Circular Genome Model for Primordial RNA Replication
   2020
7. Assumption and Criticism on RNA World Hypothesis from Ribozymes to Functional Cells
   Sami El Khatib, Ahmad Raslan · 2021 · Bioengineering and Bioscience
8. The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry of Biomolecules
   Michele Fiore · 2019 · MDPI eBooks
9. Biophysical Approach to Understand Life and Cancer
   Nuri Faruk Aykan · 2024 · Aging and Cancer
10. Transition Metal Organometallic/Metallorganic Chemistry: Its Role in Prebiotic Chemistry and Life’s Origin
    Marco Fioroni · 2021 · Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics
11. What Is Life? The Vitalism–Mechanism Debate and the Origins of Life
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
12. Multispecies autocatalytic RNA reaction networks in coacervates
    2022
13. In search of the RNA world on Mars
    2020
14. Complete RNA replication cycles in a Hadean microcompartment
    2022
15. Emergence and diversification of a host-parasite RNA ecosystem through Darwinian evolution
    2019
16. From experimental clues to theoretical modeling: Evolution associated with the membrane-takeover at an early stage of life
    2025
17. Compositional memory matters for early molecular systems
    Barnabé Ledoux, Ryoka Kuwabara, Norikazu Ichihashi, Ryo Mizuuchi, David Lacoste · 2026 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
18. Ten questions on membrane biophysics
    Georg Pabst, Carolyn Vargas, Sandro Keller · 2026 · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
19. Deep sequencing of nonenzymatic RNA primer extension
    2020
20. Nonenzymatic template-directed replication using 2′-3′ cyclic nucleotides under wet-dry cycles
    Shikha Dagar, Susovan Sarkar, Sudha Rajamani · 2022 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
21. Characterizing Mixed Single‐Chain Amphiphile‐Based Coacervates as a Robust Protocell System
    Gauri M. Patki, Vanthanaa Sridhar, Sudha Rajamani · 2025 · ChemBioChem
22. Information Gradient among Nucleotide Sequences of Essential RNAs in an Evolutionary Perspective
    2024
23. Vitamin-guanosine monophosphate conjugates for in vitro transcription priming
    Nikolaos Papastavrou, Omprakash P. Bande, Philippe Marlière, Elisabetta Groaz, Piet A. Herdewijn · 2020 · Chemical Communications
24. The Virtual Circular Genome Model for Primordial RNA Replication
    2020
25. The effect of environment on the evolution and proliferation of protocells of increasing complexity
    Suvam Roy, Supratim Sengupta · 2022 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
26. Hairpin-like structure and Jahn–Teller distortions in adenosine monophosphate copper coordination polymers: synthesis and chirality
    2023
27. Selective amide bond formation in redox-active coacervate protocells
    Jiahua Wang, Manzar Abbas, Junyou Wang · 2021
28. Molecular crowding facilitates ribozyme-catalyzed RNA assembly
    2023
29. The Definition of RNA Age Related to RNA Sequence Changes
    Zhongneng Xu, Shuichi Asakawa · 2024 · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA
30. Science and Faith in Dialogue
    Marcos N. Eberlin, GUILLERMO A. GONZÁLEZ, Michael N. Keas, Casey R. Luskin, Stephen C. Meyer, Brian Miller, Fazale R. Rana, Reasons to Believe, H. N. Ross, Reasons To Believe et al. · 2022 · Reformed theology in Africa series
31. One-pot synthesis of prenylated proteins utilizing E. coli cell-free expression
    2022
32. Living infectious agents with the same organic wall assembly of Precambrian early-life fossils discovered in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour and human cancer: Giant viruses or living protocells? Evaluating the effects of an anti-cancer vaccine in stray dogs, while challenging the mysteries around the RNA world
    Elena Angela Lusi, Federico Caicci, Santo Cristarella, Marco Quartuccio · 2020 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
33. Error minimization and specificity could emerge in a genetic code as by-products of prebiotic evolution
    Evan Janzen, Yuning Shen, Ziwei Liu, Celia Blanco, Irene A. Chen · 2021 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
34. How Was the First Gene Formed in the Absence of Gene
    2023
35. Universal Cold RNA Phase Transitions
    2024
36. Information Gradient among Nucleotide Sequences of Essential RNAs from an Evolutionary Perspective
    Houssem Ben Khalfallah, Mariem Jelassi, Hajar Rissaoui, Mohtadi Barchouchi, Clément Baraille, Joël Gardes, Jacques Demongeot A · 2024 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
37. Exotic Biothreats
    Manousos E. Kambouris · 2026 · Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications
38. From experimental clues to theoretical modeling: Evolution associated with the membrane-takeover at an early stage of life
    Wentao Ma, Chunwu Yu · 2025 · PLoS Computational Biology
39. It’s Cells All the Way Down
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
40. Exchange, catalysis and amplification of encapsulated RNA driven by periodic temperature changes
    2022
41. Autocatalytic Reaction between HCN and Cysteamine Produces Hydrophobic, Catalytic, Liquid Compartments
    Alexander I. Novichkov, Yael Diskin‐Posner, Linda J. W. Shimon, Gregory Leitus, Christoph Flamm, Sergey N. Semenov · 2025 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
42. Membrane Catalyzed Formation of Nucleotide Clusters and Their Role in the Origins of Life: Insights from Molecular Simulations and Lattice Modeling
    Rajlaxmi Saha, Prathyush Poduval, Krishnakanth Baratam, Jayashree Nagesh, Anand Kumar Srivastava · 2024 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
43. What it takes to solve the origins of life: An integrated review. Part 2: Theoretical methods and emerging trends
    Silke Asche, Carla Bautista, Celia Blanco, David Boulesteix, Alexandre Champagne-Ruel, Cole Mathis, Omer Markovitch, Zhen Peng, Avinash Vicholous Dass, Alyssa Adams et al. · 2026 · Cell Reports Physical Science
44. Non-enzymatic error correction in self-replicators without extraneous energy supply
    2025
45. The Virus World in Deep Time
    Sankar Chatterjee · 2023 · Springer eBooks
46. Influence of Phosphate Activation Chemistry on the Selection of the Primordial Genetic Alphabet
    Filip Bošković, Jian Zhang, Alok Apan Swatiputra, Jack W. Szostak · 2026 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
47. Synthesis, NMR kinetics and dynamic structure of a 17-mer heptaloop RNA hairpin carrying a 3- N -methyluridine nucleotide residue in the loop region
    Cenk A. Andac, Ulfert Hornemann, Ningur Noyanalpan, Thomas C. Stringfellow · 2023 · Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
48. Insight into the structures of unusual base pairs in RNA complexes containing a primer/template/adenosine ligand
    Yuliya Dantsu, Ying Zhang, Wen Zhang · 2023 · RSC Chemical Biology
49. Origin of ribonucleotide recognition motifs through ligand mimicry at early earth
    Deepto Mozumdar, Raktim N. Roy · 2024 · RNA Biology
50. How was the “Chicken and Egg Relationship” between Gene and Protein formed?
    Kenji Ikehara · 2023 · Preprints.org
51. Prebiotic RNA self-assembling and the origin of life: Mechanistic and molecular modeling rationale for explaining the prebiotic origin and replication of RNA
    JUAN CARLOS STOCKERT, Richard W. Horobin · 2025 · Acta Histochemica
52. Emergent Chemical Reactivity and Complexity of RNA Condensates
    Samuel Hauf, Ryô Nakamura, Barbara Cellini, Yohei Yokobayashi, Mirco Dindo · 2025 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition
53. Reactive Brownian Dynamics of Chemically Fueled Droplets: Roles of Attraction and Deactivation Modes
    Lennard Holschuh, Joachim Dzubiella · 2025 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
54. Genes Are Tools of Intelligent Cells
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
55. Review: Origins of life: First came evolutionary dynamics — R0/PR2
    Charles D. Kocher, Ken A. Dill · 2023 · QRB Discovery
56. Biomathematical enzyme kinetics model of prebiotic autocatalytic RNA networks: degenerating parasite-specific hyperparasite catalysts confer parasite resistance and herald the birth of molecular immunity
    Magnus Pirovino, Christian Iseli, Joseph Alphonsus Curran, Bernard Conrad · 2025 · PLoS Computational Biology
57. Происхождение генетического кода и трансляции в рамках современных концепций происхождения жизни
    Л.Г. Кондратьева, М.С. Дьячкова, Alexey Vladimirovich Galchenko · 2022 · Biochemistry (Moscow)
58. In Search of Unity in Diversity: A Unifying View on Emergence at Scales
    Sanjay Karki · 2026 · SSRN Electronic Journal
59. Glossary of Technical Terms in the Biological Sciences
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
60. Hydrothermalism for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Simplest Life‐Like System on the Hadean Earth
    Kunio Kawamura · 2023 · Wiley eBooks
61. So many serious mistakes in NASA's Mars Samples Environmental Impact Statement it needs a clean restart - omits major impacts – uses old science later overturned – statements cited to sources that say the opposite – no response to significant public concerns – “Purpose and need” should permit a sterilized return as a reasonable alternative action - and size limit needs a new review first, a decade after the ESF in 2012 reduced the size of particle to contain from 0.2 to 0.05 microns
    Robert Walker · 2022
62. Did organs precede organisms in the dawn of life?
    Fernando Baquero, Val F. Lanza, Carlos Briones · 2024
63. An Exercise in Lexicography: Defining(?) Consciousness
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
64. Coevolution of reproducers and replicators at the origin of life and the conditions for the origin of genomes
    S. G. Babajanyan, Yuri I. Wolf, Andranik Khachatryan · 2022 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
65. Precellular System Models and the Struggle Against Reductionism: Revisiting a Scientific and Philosophical Debate
    José Alberto Campillo-Balderas, Ricardo Hernández-Morales, Antonio Lazcano · 2026 · Astrobiology
66. Competition between bridged dinucleotides and activated mononucleotides determines the error frequency of nonenzymatic RNA primer extension
    2021
67. NASA’s draft EIS does NOT establish that life from Mars can get to Earth faster and better protected in a meteorite - or that ANY life on Mars can get here in this way – it does NOT overturn previous warnings of the potential for large scale effects – and these mistakes have MAJOR public interest and legal implications
    Robert Walker · 2022
68. Freeze‐thaw Fusion Enables Multi‐component Delivery and Protein Synthesis in POPG‐containing Lipid Vesicles
    2026
69. Emergent Chemical Reactivity and Complexity of RNA Condensates
    2025
70. Recommendation: Origins of life: First came evolutionary dynamics — R0/PR3
    Charles D. Kocher, Ken A. Dill · 2023 · QRB Discovery
71. From Inorganic Evolution to Biological Evolution: The Catalytic Outsourcing and Time-Gate Selection Hypothesis
    Jianyuan Cai · 2026 · SSRN Electronic Journal
72. Recommendation: Origins of life: First came evolutionary dynamics — R1/PR4
    Charles D. Kocher, Ken A. Dill · 2023 · QRB Discovery
73. Emergence and Evolution of Cells
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
74. Non-enzymatic error correction in self-replicators without extraneous energy supply
    Koushik Ghosh, Parthasarthi Sahu, Shashikanta Barik, Hemachander Subramanian · 2026 · Scientific Reports
75. Higher Permeability of l-Ribose Versus d-Ribose through Prebiotically-Relevant Lipid Bilayers Measured by Molecular Dynamics Simulations Challenges Origin of Life Models for the Generation of D-RNA
    Tamir Dingjan, Anthony H. Futerman · 2026 · BioCosmos
76. The Biophysical Basis of Cellular Sentience
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
77. Minimizing Product Inhibition in DNA Self-Replication: Insights for Prebiotic Replication from the Role of the Enzyme in Lesion-Induced DNA Amplification
    2022
78. A Symbiogenic Origin for Prokaryotes
    Praveen Prathapan · 2024 · SSRN Electronic Journal
79. Illustration of the variable 1D sequences but conserved 2D and 3D structures of different ncRNA nanostructures for tracking the evolution and origin of organisms
    Kai Jin, Margaret Bohmer, Peixuan Guo · 2025 · Non-coding RNA Research
80. How evolution builds up complexity?: In vitro evolution approaches to witness complexification in artificial molecular replication systems
    Taro Furubayashi, Norikazu Ichihashi · 2022 · Biophysics and Physicobiology
81. A Non-paradoxical Pathway for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Most Primitive RNA-Based Life-like System
    Kunio Kawamura · 2019 · Springer eBooks
82. Physicochemical Constraints on the Abiotic Polymerization of Nucleotides Into RNA
    Douglas Edward LaRowe, Jeffrey M. Dick · 2025 · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
83. Biological Catalysis and Information Storage Have Relied on N-Glycosyl Derivatives of β-D-Ribofuranose since the Origins of Life
    Katarzyna Woźniak, Krzysztof Brzeziński · 2023 · Biomolecules
84. Rumours of war and evidence for peace between science and Christianity
    Michael N. Keas · 2022 · Reformed theology in Africa series
85. The Scientific View of the Origin of Life
    Josephine Clare Adams, Jürgen Engel · 2021 · Springer eBooks
86. Evolution of the substrate specificity of an RNA ligase ribozyme from phosphorimidazole- to triphosphate-activation
    2024
87. Advances in experimental research on artificial life based on chemical systems
    Yuening Xia, Ji Zhou · 2026 · Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
88. Analysis of the intrinsic value of life in the context of synthetic biology
    Yi Leaf Zhang, Yuling Chen, Bohua Liao · 2025 · Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
89. Characterizing mixed single chain amphiphile-based coacervates as a robust protocell system
    2025
90. NASA and ESA will need to sterilize Mars samples to protect Earth's biosphere, because of the many years to complete the legal process and then build a receiving facility to the legally approved design - recommendation to study unsterilized samples telerobotically in a safe orbit above GEO, and return sterilized sub-samples to Earth immediately - PLEASE READ LATEST VERSION AT: https://osf.io/rk2gd
    Robert Walker · 2020
91. Scaffold shedding as a network dynamical model for the origin of minimal cells
    Angus M. McCoss · 2026 · Discover Life
92. Prologue: Setting the Stage
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
93. Prebiotically Plausible Activation Chemistry Compatible with Nonenzymatic RNA Copying
    Stephanie J. Zhang, Daniel Duzdevich, Jack W. Szostak · 2020 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
94. Theoretical investigation of the reaction between pyrimidine nucleobases, D-ribose, and Phosphates in the prebiotic synthesis of RNA nucleosides and nucleotides
    Earle Silva Araujo, Jonathas Nunes da Silva, Adjane Dalvana Sampaio Gato, Lucas Gomes Cresencio, Kélson Mota Teixeira de Oliveira · 2025 · Cuadernos de Educación y Desarrollo
95. NASA and ESA are likely to be legally required to sterilize Mars samples to protect the environment until proven safe – the technology doesn't yet exist to comply with the ESF study's requirement to contain viable starved ultramicrobacteria proven to pass through 0.1 micron nanopores - proposal to study samples of astrobiological interest remotely in a safe high orbit above GEO with miniature life detection instruments – and immediately return sterilized subsamples to Earth
    Robert Walker · 2021
96. On some predictions of the poly-tRNA model for the origin and evolution of genetic coding
    Jacques Daniel · 2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)
97. Highlights from the 57th Bürgenstock Conference on Stereochemistry 2024
    Jesús Mosquera, Alessandro Bismuto · 2024 · Chemical Science
98. Issues of Ethics and Morality
    Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller · 2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks
99. Influence of phosphate activation chemistry on the selection of the primordial genetic alphabet
    2025
100. Error Catastrophe Is Avoided by Proofreading Innate to Template-Directed Polymerization
     Yoshiya J. Matsubara, Nobuto Takeuchi, Kunihiko Kaneko · 2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)