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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Prebiotic Chemistry that Could Not

Steven A Benner, Hyo-Joong Kim, Elisa Biondi

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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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

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Formose Reaction with SOLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  2. Ionic Liquid Biospheres.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  4. Interstep compatibility of a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA consistent with Hadean natural history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Evolution at the Origins of Life?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  15. Rethinking nucleic acids from their origins to their applications.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  17. On the Evolutionary History of the Twenty Encoded Amino Acids.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Steven A BennerFoundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, 13709 Progress Blvd. Box 7, Alachua, FL 32615, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3318-9917
Hyo-Joong KimFoundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, 13709 Progress Blvd. Box 7, Alachua, FL 32615, USA.
Elisa BiondiFoundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, 13709 Progress Blvd. Box 7, Alachua, FL 32615, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3660-2607

Funding

John Templeton Foundation 54466NASA NNX14AK37G
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a direct route by which RNA might have emerged in the Hadean from a fayalite-magnetite mantle, volcanic SO

Indexed as

Hadeanmeteorite impactorganic mineralsprebiotic chemistryRNA formation

Identifiers

PMID31739415
PMCPMC6958414

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