Artificial life

Emergence of autopoietic vesicles able to grow, repair and reproduce in a minimalist particle system
Cabaret – preprint

Astrobiology

Constraining Background N2 Inventories on Directly Imaged Terrestrial Exoplanets to Rule Out O2 False Positives
Hall et al. – The Astronomical Journal

Biochemistry

The 3 31 Nucleotide Minihelix tRNA Evolution Theorem and the Origin of Life
Lei et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)

On the Emergence of Autonomous Chemical Systems through Dissipation Kinetics
Pross et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)

Biology

Molecular diversity and evolution of far-red light-acclimated photosystem I
Gisriel et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science

Chemistry

Binding of precursors to replicator assemblies can improve replication fidelity and mediate error correction
Markovitch et al. – preprint

Microbiology

ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life
Mahendrarajah et al. – Nature Communications