ELSI’s Liam M. Longo receives the prestigious Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant

How to convert plastic straw waste into polyester microdroplets with enzyme engineering and prebiotic chemistry

Tony Z. Jia, Kosuke Fujishima et al., ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2025

How calcium may have unlocked the origins of life’s molecular asymmetry

Tony Z. Jia et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2025

How life’s building blocks took shape on early Earth: the limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation

Tony Z. Jia and Rehana Afrin et al., ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, 2025

Solving the evolutionary puzzle of polyploidy: how genome duplication shapes adaptation

Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama et al., PRX Life, 2024

Could a Subsurface Supercritical CO₂–Water Two-phase Environment Offer a Solution to the Phosphate Problem and Water Paradox?

Shotaro Tagawa, Kosuke Fujishima et at., Astrobiology, 2024

Representing chemistry by its underlying rules to understand how evolution has selected universal pathways

Eric Smith and Harrison B. Smith et al., PLoS Complex Systems, 2024

Could polyesters (yes, the material of which your jacket is made!) drive primitive reactions on early Earth?

Chen Chen and Tony Z. Jia et al., Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024

Alternative pathways to life should be considered

Tony Z. Jia et al., Life, 2024