Enhanced transcription and translation in clay hydrogel and implications for early life evolution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, Dayong ^a   Peng, Songming ^a   Hartman, Mark R ^a   Gupton Campolongo, Tiffany ^a   Rice, Edward J ^a   Chang, Anna Kathryn ^a   Gu, Zi ^b   Lu, G Q ^b   Luo, Dan ^a,c  

^a Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; CLAY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; HYDROGEL; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEL; METABOLISM;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; HYDROGEL; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA;

EID: 84889684437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03165     Document Type: Article

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