Fresh off the lab press! 📰 Scientists from FfAME, Tohoku Univ., and JAMSTEC report a prebiotic route to form long RNA from compounds containing 1-3 carbon, 0-4 hydrogen and 1-3 nitrogen atoms, in geological environments that occurred on early Earth ~4.3 billion years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Fresh off the lab press! New ACS Chem Bio paper from Benner and colleagues reveals improved Z nucleosides for AEGIS DNA, reducing deprotonation, Z:G mismatches, and boosting fidelity. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Attention Astrobiology and Explorers! Dr. Jan Spacek will be presenting a colloquium this Thursday Nov. 6th from 12:45 to 1:45 pm at the @ufresearch.bsky.social campus in the Bryant Space Science Center in Room 217.

A team of scientists at FfAME (Steve Benner, Jan Spacek, Clay Abraham) joined European astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch to publish this eLetter in Science that reexamines, at last, a misinterpretation published in Science by Klaus Biemann and his coworkers. Links below!

Hello Researchers and Science Enthusiasts, We are proud to announce that the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME) now has a new social media presence!