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

New Study Sheds Light on Ancient Protoribosome and its Role in Early Life Evolution

Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kosuke Fujishima et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2024

Osmotic Energy Conversion Discovered in Hydrothermal Vents Provides Clues to Life’s Beginnings

Hye-Eun Lee, Shawn Erin McGlynn, Ryuhei Nakamuar et al., Nature Communications, 2024