2007 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.4 Reports Reporting | JUL 2006 – JUN 2007
Roadmap Objective 3.4—Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
Project Reports
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Early Metabolic Pathways
We continue to employ both experimental and computational approaches to investigate the evolutionary origins of functional macromolecules. We conducted the first laboratory evolution of a completely new non-biological enzyme that joins two fragments of RNA into a single strand (it acts as an RNA ligase).
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 -
Project 4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 3.4 4.1 7.1 -
Membrane RNAs
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.3 3.4 -
Prebiotic Organics From Space
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2 -
Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.1 -
Philosophical Issues in Astrobiology
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.1 5.1 5.2