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ArticleNature2024

Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity.

Thomas Matreux, Paula Aikkila, Bettina Scheu, Dieter Braun, Christof B Mast

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing 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

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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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Theory for sequence selection via phase separation and oligomerization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Protopeptide backbone affects assembly in aqueous solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. Diffusion-controlled growth of a planar chemical garden wall before osmotic fracture.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
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  15. Chemiosmotic ATP synthesis by minimal protocells.Cell reports. Physical science · 2025
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  20. Chemical Antiquity in Metabolism.Accounts of chemical research · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Thomas Matreux *Systems Biophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1389-7019
Paula Aikkila *Systems Biophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5532-5572
Bettina ScheuDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Dieter BraunSystems Biophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Christof B MastSystems Biophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. christof.mast@physik.uni-muenchen.de.ORCID 0000-0002-3338-6275

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of biopolymer building blocks is a crucial step during the origins of life

Indexed as

BiopolymersEvolution, ChemicalHot TemperatureOrigin of LifeDimerizationGlycineHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationNucleotidesPolyphosphatesSolventsBiopolymersGlycineNucleotidesPolyphosphatesSolventstrimetaphosphoric acid

Identifiers

PMID38570715
PMCPMC10990939

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