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      6th NoRCEL CONFERENCE: Chemical Informational Universe

      Is life nothing but a large network of chemical reactions and cycles, endlessly recycling itself with ever greater complexity? Surely something else is involved! Just as writing communicates knowledge through language so the human genome conveys information to those that can read it...
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      NoRCEL Astroscience Exploration Network ASEN

      The Astroscience Exploration Network (ASEN) is NoRCEL’s latest innovative initiative and has the objective of creating an African Astroscience Hub. This...
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      Virtual Frontiers of Sciences VI: Schedule – Saturday 12 March 2022

      Sponsored by NoRCEL, in conjunction with the Astrobiology Society of Britain, the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Chemistry. We present another one of our popular science-in-society meetings, this time delving into the intricacies of differing Complex Systems. Our panel of international, eminent scientists look forward to sharing their extensive knowledge with you on Saturday the 12th March 2022.
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      Seeking out Moon and Mars superoxides for oxygen farming

      The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidising material could be...
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      Mars: New insights and unresolved questions

      Mars exploration motivates the search for extraterrestrial life, the development of space technologies, and the design of human missions and habitations....
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      The Way forward for the Origin of Life: Prions and Prion-Like Molecules First Hypothesis

      In this paper the hypothesis that prions and prion-like molecules could have initiated the chemical evolutionary process which led to the...
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      The catalytic properties of chondritic meteorites and their role in the origin of life in Nitrogen- and water-rich environments (J.M. TRIGO-RODRIGUEZ)

      Undifferentiated asteroids and comets are composed by primordial materials that were forming part of the protoplanetary disk. Some of the most...
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      Prebiotic synthesis initiated in formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide by laser plasma simulating high-velocity impacts (Martin FERUS)

      It is well known that hydrogen cyanide and formamide can universally be considered as key molecules in prebiotic synthesis. Despite the...
      00:17:45
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      A Clamping Domain Facilitates Processivity and Promoter Recognition in an RNA Polymerase Ribozyme (Razvan COJOCARU)

      The “RNA World” proposes that early in evolution RNA could have served both as the carrier of genetic information and as...
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      • NORCEL’s Blue Earth Project 2022 Virtual Event (BEP2022)
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Chemical, molecular, isotopic, or morphological feature that indicates the presence of extant or extinct life, as we know it.

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  • ABOUT
    • Raison D’être
    • International Committee
    • The Uniqueness of NoRCEL – Future Forward
  • NEWS
  • ARTICLES
  • TALKS
  • HUBS
    • Latin America Hub (LAHUB)
      • LAHub2022 1st LATIN AMERICA Colloquium
  • PROJECTS
    • ASEN – Astroscience Exploration Network
    • NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project
      • NORCEL’s Blue Earth Project 2022 Virtual Event (BEP2022)
    • International Frontiers of Sciences
      • iFS2021 – International Frontiers of Science
    • Frontiers of Sciences
    • NoRCEL Dictionary
    • Sub-Saharan African Outreach Activities
    • NoRCEL Gap Map – An ‘unreview’ of universal biology
    • NoRCEL GapMap Form
  • EVENTS
    • Conferences
      • 6th NoRCEL CONFERENCE
      • NoRCEL21
    • Workshops
    • Visits and outreach
    • Student Awards
    • NoRCEL Publications
  • CONTACT
    • Member registration