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ArticleNature methods2014

A synthetic approach to abiogenesis.

James Attwater, Philipp Holliger

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Article in Nature methods, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. An RNA polymerase ribozyme that synthesizes its own ancestor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  7. Amplification of RNA by an RNA polymerase ribozyme.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  8. DNA nanotechnology: new adventures for an old warhorse.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

James AttwaterMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Philipp HolligerMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105178804Medical Research Council U105178804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic biology seeks to probe fundamental aspects of biological form and function by construction (resynthesis) rather than deconstruction (analysis). Here we discuss how such an approach could be applied to assemble synthetic quasibiological systems able to replicate and evolve, illuminating universal properties of life and the search for its origins.

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BacteriaDNADNA ReplicationEvolution, MolecularGenetic EngineeringGenetic TechniquesGenomeMetabolic EngineeringPhenotypeResearch DesignRNASoftwareSynthetic BiologyDNARNA

Identifiers

PMID24781322

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