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List of works by David W. Deamer

A giant step towards artificial life?

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Adenosine monophosphate forms ordered arrays in multilamellar lipid matrices: insights into assembly of nucleic acid for primitive life.

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Artificial cells: prospects for biotechnology

scientific article (publication date: March 2002)

Author response to John Kasianowicz and Sergey Bezrukov

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Bioenergetics and life's origins

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Can Life Begin on Enceladus? A Perspective from Hydrothermal Chemistry

scientific article published on 06 July 2017

Catalytic effects of Murchison material: prebiotic synthesis and degradation of RNA precursors

scientific article published on 12 April 2011

Characterization of nucleic acids by nanopore analysis

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Conjecture and hypothesis: The importance of reality checks

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Correlated electrical and optical analysis of single nanoparticles and biomolecules on a nanopore-gated optofluidic chip.

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

Coupled phases and combinatorial selection in fluctuating hydrothermal pools: a scenario to guide experimental approaches to the origin of cellular life

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Discrimination among individual Watson-Crick base pairs at the termini of single DNA hairpin molecules.

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Dry/Wet Cycling and the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Prebiotic Polymer Synthesis

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Eutectic Phase Polymerization of Activated Ribonucleotide Mixtures Yields Quasi-Equimolar Incorporation of Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleobases

scientific article published on November 12, 2003

Generation of oligonucleotides under hydrothermal conditions by non-enzymatic polymerization

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Highly accurate classification of Watson-Crick basepairs on termini of single DNA molecules

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Influence of ionic inorganic solutes on self-assembly and polymerization processes related to early forms of life: implications for a prebiotic aqueous medium.

scientific article published in January 2002

Intrinsic asymmetries of amino acid enantiomers and their peptides: a possible role in the origin of biochirality

scientific article published on November 2007

Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

Life after the synthetic cell

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Lipids as universal biomarkers of extraterrestrial life

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Low-frequency cooperative dynamics in L-, D-, and DL-alanine crystals: a 13C and 15N cross-polarization magic-angle-spinning NMR study.

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Membrane self-assembly processes: steps toward the first cellular life.

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Membranes and the Origin of Life: A Century of Conjecture

scientific article published on 2 December 2016

Membranes, Murchison, and Mars: an encapsulated life in science

scientific article published on June 2012

Mobility of a Mononucleotide within a Lipid Matrix: A Neutron Scattering Study.

scientific article published on 04 January 2017

Models of primitive cellular life: polymerases and templates in liposomes.

scientific article published on October 2007

Nanopore analysis of nucleic acids bound to exonucleases and polymerases

scientific article published on January 2010

Nucleobases bind to and stabilize aggregates of a prebiotic amphiphile, providing a viable mechanism for the emergence of protocells.

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

On the origin of systems. Systems biology, synthetic biology and the origin of life

scientific article published on August 2009

Organization of Nucleotides in Different Environments and the Formation of Pre-Polymers.

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as plausible prebiotic membrane components

scientific article (publication date: August 2012)

Replication of individual DNA molecules under electronic control using a protein nanopore

scientific article published on September 26, 2010

Salt-promoted synthesis of RNA-like molecules in simulated hydrothermal conditions

scientific article published on 9 December 2014

Self-assembled vesicles of monocarboxylic acids and alcohols: conditions for stability and for the encapsulation of biopolymers

scientific article published in February 2002

Self-assembly and function of primitive cell membranes

scientific article published on 04 July 2009

Self-assembly processes in the prebiotic environment

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2006)

Sequence-dependent gating of an ion channel by DNA hairpin molecules

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Sequence-specific detection of individual DNA polymerase complexes in real time using a nanopore

scientific article published on 28 October 2007

The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap

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The Role of Lipid Membranes in Life's Origin

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

The first cell membranes.

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The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing

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Unexpected differences between D- and L- tyrosine lead to chiral enhancement in racemic mixtures

scientific article published in August 2002

Where do we go from here? Astrobiology editorial board opinions

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