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The Miller Experiment: A Key to Understanding Life’s Origins and its importance for PROTOS

Seventy years ago, American scientist Stanley Miller designed his famous "primordial soup" experiment, successfully recreating the foundations of Earth's first…

11 months hace

Silica and the spark of life: new research reveals how protocells formed on early earth

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that protocells and prebiotic compounds…

11 months hace

Strengthening Collaboration: Highlights from the Second PROTOS On-Site Meeting in Granada

The second PROTOS on-site meeting, organized in Granada (Spain) from November 27th to 29th, 2024, by the Spanish National Research…

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(CLOSED) Research Engineer Position (M/F): Design of flow Microreactors for the Study of Rock/Fluid Interactions Mimicking Primordial Earth Conditions

Laboratoire de Génie Chimique - CNRS - Toulouse INP - UPS Research Engineer Position (M/F): Design of flow Microreactors for…

1 year hace

(CLOSED) Postdoctoral Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Naturalis Biodiversity Center Postdoctoral Fellow to study Pattern formation in hot spring silica sinters under early Earth conditions Naturalis offers…

1 year hace

On the role of silica in the origin of life and primitive life detection

J.M. García-Ruiz1,2, W. Bach3, H. Coelfen4, M. van Zuilen5, R. Saladino6. E. di Mauro6, C. Jenewein2, B. M. Bizzarri6 1Donostia…

1 year hace

The project

An artist’s vision of the Hadean era, the geochemical scenario of the origin of life that PROTOS will study /…

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