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International Frontiers of Sciences 2021 (iFS – Remote Event)
On the Saturday the 6th of November 2021, at 11:40pm to 16:45 pm (GMT), NoRCEL will hold our inaugural International Frontiers of Sciences 2021 event....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...FEATUREDAnnouncing the “NoRCEL Blue Earth Project”
Life is subject to continuous co-evolution with its environment. While planet Earth provides the conditions that permits life to exist, life...
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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...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...ARTICLESThe Landscape of the Emergence of Life
Open access publication in Life 2017, 7, 27; https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/7/2/27 Introduction The time-frame for life on Earth to emerge was thought to have taken...
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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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