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Confronting risks of mirror life;
Katarzyna P. Adamala, Deepa Agashe, Yasmine Belkaid, Daniela Matias de C. Bittencourt, Yizhi Cai, Matthew W. Chang, Irene A. Chen, George M. Church, Vaughn S. Cooper, Mark M. Davis, Neal K. Devaraj, Drew Endy, Kevin M. Esvelt, John I. Glass, Timothy W. Hand, Thomas V. Inglesby, Farren J. Isaacs, Wilmot G. James, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Michael S. Kay, Richard E. Lenski, Chenli Liu, Ruslan Medzhitov, Matthew L. Nicotra, Sebastian B. Oehm, Jaspreet Pannu, David A. Relman, Petra Schwille, James A. Smith, Hiroaki Suga, Jack W. Szostak, Nicholas J. Talbot, James M. Tiedje, J. Craig Venter, Gregory Winter, Weiwen Zhang, Xinguang Zhu, Maria T. Zuber;
Science, 12 2024
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158

Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks;
Adamala, Katarzyna; Agashe, Deepa; Binder, Damon; Cai, Yizhi; Cooper, Vaughn; Duncombe, Ryan; Esvelt, Kevin; Glass, John; Hand, Timothy; Inglesby, Thomas; Isaacs, Farren; Jones, Jonathan; Lenski, Richard; Lewis, Gregory; Medzhitov, Ruslan; Nicotra, Matthew; Oehm, Sebastian; Pannu, Jaspreet; Relman, David; Suga, Hiroaki; Sweere, Johanna; Szostak, Jack;, Nicholas; Wang, Brian;
Stanford Digital Repository, 12 2024
https://doi.org/10.25740/cv716pj4036

Engineering Biology for Space Health: An Innovative Research Roadmap;
Engineering Biology Research Consortium (2024); doi: 10.25498/E4D59R
roadmap.ebrc.org/engineering-biology-for-space-health/

Laws of thought in living cells;
Carlise Sorenson, Katarzyna P. Adamala;
Cell 187, 18, 4830-4832
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00896-1

Alternate conformational trajectories in ribosome translocation;
Jose L. Alejo, Dylan Girodat, Michael J. Hammerling, Jessica A. Willi, Michael C. Jewett, Aaron E. Engelhart, Katarzyna P. Adamala;
PLoS Comput Biol 20(8): e1012319
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012319

preprint Nonenzymatic, prebiotic aminoacylation couples chirality of RNA and protein;
Joshua A Davisson, Evan M Kalb, Isaac J Knudson, Alanna Schepartz, Aaron E Engelhart, Katarzyna Adamala
10.1101/2024.07.29.605638v1

preprint A roadmap towards the synthesis of Life;
CME Kriebisch, O Bantysh, L Baranda, A Belluati, E Bertosin, K Dai, M de Roy, H Fu, N Galvanetto, JM Gibbs, SS Gomez, G Granatelli, A Griffo, M Guix, CO Gurdap, J Harth-Kitzerow, IS Haugerud, G Häfner, P Jaiswal, S Javed, A Karimi, S Kato, BAK Kriebisch, S Laha, P-W Lee, WP Lipinski, T Matreux, T Michaels, E Poppleton, A Ruf, AD Slootbeek, IBA Smokers, H Soria-Carrera, A Sorrenti, M Stasi, A Stevenson, A Thatte, M Tran, MHI van Haren, Hidde D. Vuijk, SFJ Wickham, P Zambrano, KP Adamala, K Alim, E Sloth Andersen, C Bonfio, D Braun, E Frey, U Gerland, Wilhelm T. S. Huck20, F Jülicher, N Laohakunakorn, L Mahadevan, S Otto, J Saenz, P Schwille, K Göpfrich, CA Weber, J Boekhoven
10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-tnx83

Emergent ribozyme behaviors in oxychlorine brines indicate a unique niche for molecular evolution on Mars;
Tanner G. Hoog, Matthew R. Pawlak, Nathaniel J. Gaut, Gloria C. Baxter, Thomas A. Bethel, Katarzyna P. Adamala, Aaron E. Engelhart
Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 3863 (2024), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48037-2

Sequential gentle hydration increases encapsulation in model protocells;
Emma Gehlbach, Abbey O. Robinson, Aaron E. Engelhart and Katarzyna P. Adamala
Discover Life, Volume 54, article number 2, (2024), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-024-09645-6