Chemical replication

Spontaneous emergence of self-replication in chemical reaction systems

Self-replication is one of the central properties of life (1), and to explain life’s origins we need to explain how selfreplication arose. It is widely accepted that before DNA, life replicated through RNA molecules (2). However, it remains unclear how the building blocks of RNA, such as nucleotides, became available on the primitive Earth, and even if these building blocks were abundant, it is...

Systems chemistry: from chemical self-replication to trisoligo-based nanoconstruction

Self-replication is one of the major principles without life could not exist. The emergence of self-replicating systems on the early earth is generally believed to have taken place before the advent of instructed protein synthesis based on a complex translation machinery. Whether the origin of self-replication is identical to the origin of the hypothetical RNA world or whether it existed at an ...

E2DR: Energy Efficient Data Replication in Data Grid

Abstract— Data grids are an important branch of gird computing which provide mechanisms for the management of large volumes of distributed data. Energy efficiency has recently emerged as a hot topic in large distributed systems. The development of computing systems is traditionally focused on performance improvements driven by the demand of client's applications in scientific and business domai...

Cordycepin is a novel chemical suppressor of Epstein-Barr virus replication

Cordyceps species are known to produce numerous active components and are used for diverse medicinal purposes because of their varied physiological activities, including their ability to protect the liver from damage as well as their anticancer, antidepressant, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antimicrobial effects. Cordycepin, an adenosine derivative, differs from adenosine in that its ribose ...

Multi-scale Replication of Small Intestine Basement Membrane via Chemical Vapor Deposition A Thesis Presented by