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1st Latin American Colloquium
The latest initiative of our network is to create science hubs across the continents. The first, focussing on Latin and South...NEWSSponsored student: Masauko Utila from Malawi
There is nothing like the pleasure one gets when helping someone to achieve their life’s goals. Masauko Utila is from Malawi,...NEWSThe NoRCEL Gap Map Project
The “NoRCEL gap map” is a project of the Network of Researchers on the Chemical Evolution of Life (NoRCEL). Unlike a...
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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....NoRCEL PublicationsThe 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...ARTICLESMolecules to Microbes
Introduction The Network of Researchers on the Chemical Evolution of Life (NoRCEL, formally NoR HGT & LUCA) was formed in 2013 with a...
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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...Conference TalksPrebiotic 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...Conference TalksA 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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The prime aim and objectives of the 'Network of Researchers on the Chemical Evolution of Life' are to promote and disseminate research information relating to the chemical evolution of life on the Earth, from the advent of prebiotic chemistry through to the emergence of the cellular life forms, namely Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya.
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