Protein problem: Researchers challenge fundamental assumption in evolutionary biochemistry

Liam M. Longo et al., Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025

The versatility of lactic acid in the origin of membraneless protocells at the origins of life

Tony Z. Jia et al., Polymer Journal, 2025

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