Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2023

Session

Session X

Jun 22, 2023, 12:00 PM

Online

Conveners

Session X: Talks

• Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz & TU Munich, DE)
• James Attwater (UCL, UK)

Session X: Q&A

• There are no conveners in this block

77. The molecular atlas of soluble organic matter of meteorites and of Ryugu C-type asteroid parent body

Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz & TU Munich, DE)

6/22/23, 12:00 PM

We present here a review of the state of the art in non-targeted high resolution analysis of the soluble organic fraction of various meteorites; these include carbonaceous chondrites as well as achondrites and ordinary chondrites in the light of the analysis of the sample return missions HAYABUSA2 and OSIRIS ReX.

Understanding the origin and evolution of organic matter, is linked to...

78. Open-ended amplification of RNA by a ribozyme

James Attwater (UCL, UK)

6/22/23, 12:25 PM

Early biology is thought to have propagated its genetic information through strands of RNA. To recapitulate this process in the laboratory, ribozymes have been developed that polymerise short RNA building blocks on a template strand. This synthesis activity has the potential to support a biological behaviour – RNA replication – if the double-stranded RNA product can be separated into fresh...