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Precellular System Models and the Struggle Against Reductionism: Revisiting a Scientific and Philosophical Debate

  • José Alberto Campillo-Balderas
  • Ricardo Hernández-Morales
  • Antonio Lazcano
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The Only Constant of Life’s Origin is Change: The Importance of Chemical Fluxes in Prebiotic Environments

  • Craig R. Walton
  • Skyla B. White
  • Paul B. Rimmer
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Assembly of Replicating Protocells with Primitive Metabolism

  • Caner Karabasoglu
  • Aysenur Saytas
  • Beril Akgol
  • Simay Mercimek
  • O. Duhan Toparlak
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Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?

  • Alexander A. Pavlov
  • Caroline Freissinet
  • Daniel P. Glavin
  • Christopher H. House
  • Jennifer C. Stern
  • Amy C. McAdam
  • Anais Roussel
  • Jason P. Dworkin
  • Luoth Chou
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  • Denise Buckner
  • Felipe Gomez
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Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe Workshop Report

  • Jordan Bimm
  • Mary Voytek
  • Caleb Scharf
  • Linda Billings
  • Brianne Suldovsky
  • Felisa Wolfe-Simon
  • Morgan L. Cable
  • Sara K. Yeo
  • Michael A. Xenos
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Viking Mars, Now 50 Years Old, Still Needs a Scientific Analysis

  • Steven A. Benner
  • Dirk Schulze-Makuch
  • Jan Spacek
  • Clay Abraham
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The Origin, Extension, and Future of the “NASA Definition” of Life

  • Lucas J. Mix
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An Overview of Lipid Biomarkers in Terrestrial Extreme Environments with Relevance for Mars Exploration

  • Pablo L. Finkel
  • Daniel Carrizo
  • Victor Parro
  • Laura Sánchez-García
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BioSentinel: A Biological CubeSat for Deep Space Exploration

  • Sofia Massaro Tieze
  • Lauren C. Liddell
  • Sergio R. Santa Maria
  • Sharmila Bhattacharya
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BioSentinel: Long-Term Saccharomyces cerevisiae Preservation for a Deep Space Biosensor Mission

  • Sergio R. Santa Maria
  • Diana B. Marina
  • Sofia Massaro Tieze
  • Lauren C. Liddell
  • Sharmila Bhattacharya
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BioSentinel: A Biofluidic Nanosatellite Monitoring Microbial Growth and Activity in Deep Space

  • Michael R. Padgen
  • Lauren C. Liddell
  • Shilpa R. Bhardwaj
  • Diana Gentry
  • Diana Marina
  • Macarena Parra
  • Travis Boone
  • Ming Tan
  • Lance Ellingson
  • Abraham Rademacher
  • Joshua Benton
  • Aaron Schooley
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  • Charles Friedericks
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