Autocatalysis is a process whereby a product accelerates its own formation. Here, the authors describe a system whereby two simple components combine irreversibly to give a more complex ...

In the new study, researchers searched for autocatalysis beyond organic compounds. They reasoned that autocatalysis could help drive abiogenesis — the origin of life from lifelessness.

A new study is proposing the idea that life on other worlds may not look like life as we know it. A research team dug into a type of reaction known as autocatalysis—a self-perpetuating reaction ...

Unlike with standard procedures, this new technique works by autocatalysis - the rarest, but also the most ambitious, type of transformation that exists in chemistry.

A groundbreaking study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison challenges carbon-based life assumptions, revealing the potential for non-carbon-based life forms through autocatalysis.

The discipline of systems chemistry deals with the analysis and synthesis of various autocatalytic systems and is therefore closely related to the study of the origin of life, since it ...

The processes involved include autocatalysis (where molecules promote the formation of copies of themselves) and self-organization (where molecules spontaneously organize themselves into higher ...

Endonuclease Cas12a, as one key part of the CRISPR/Cas biotechnology, possessed a unique dual enzymatic function which has been widely used for various applications1. However, the limits ...