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ReviewReviews of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology2025

Electricity in the Creation of Life.

Colin D McCaig

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Review in Reviews of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Colin D McCaigInstitute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How did life come into existence? How was the first membrane formed on Earth? And where? What were the conditions that promoted membrane creation and how were electrical forces essential for this to occur?

Indexed as

ElectricityOrigin of LifeCell MembraneHumansClay architectureElectron transferElectrostatic mechanismsEnergyMembrane creationOxidative phosphorylationProtocellsRNA polymerization

Identifiers

PMID39838004

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