Research Highlights

Geologists Focus on Mineral for Clues to Beginning of Biological Life on Earth

 

Research was highlighted on NASA astrobiology website:

Maheen Gull et.al. 2015

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/geologists-focus-on-mineral-for-clues-to-beginnning-of-biological-life-on-earth/

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Special coverage of  meteoritic mineral schreibersite's research bu the USF magazine Oracle: USF scientists find clues to the possible origin of life, Maheen Gull et.al. 2016

https://www.usforacle.com/2016/02/23/usf-scientists-find-clues-to-possible-origin-of-life/

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Did Asteroids Deliver Key Building Block of Life to Earth?

Nikita La Cruz, Maheen Gull et.al.

https://www.space.com/34091-asteroid-strikes-deliver-earth-phosphorus.html

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Scientists resolve the 3.5 billion-year-old mystery of life

Matthew A.Pasek, Maheen Gull et.al. 2013

https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/scientists-resolve-a-3-5-billion-year-old-mystery-of-life/

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Research highlights made on the front cover of Angewandte Chemie

Bradely Burcar, Matthew Pasek, Maheen Gull et.al.2016

https://ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu/hud/hud-lab-featured-front-cover-angewandte-chemie

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  More coverage on the manuscript published in the Angewandte Chemie 2016

https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/9719861/How_Did_Phosphate_Get_Into_RNA.html

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Finding clues to the formation of cell membrane making molecules glycerol phosphates on the early Earth. 

 Maheen Gull and Matthew A. Pasek 2021

 https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11111384

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Synthesis of RNA making molecule (uridine nucleotide) under simplistic Hadean Earth conditions

Maheen Gull et. al. 2020

https://doi.org/10.3390/life10080122

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Substance in meteorite could have started life on earth

Pasek and Gull et. al. 2013

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/university-beat/2013-06-11/usf-geologist-substance-in-meteorite-could-have-started-life-on-earth 

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More media coverage on (Pasek and Gull et. al. PNAS 2013)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130604153520.htm

https://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i23/Ancient-Rocks-Suggest-Meteorites-Brought.html 

 

                                        

A latest research paper was highlighted in a meteorite blog: https://karmaka.de/?p=31369

Cites: Gull, M et. al., https://doi.org/10.3390/life12101591

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A recent research paper was highlighted on the NASA Astrobiology website:

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/eight-years-in-ultrapure-water/

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Cites: Gull, M et. al., https://doi.org/10.3390/life12101591

 

 

A recent Research paper made the cover page of the special issue of the journal Life:Cites: Gull, M et. al., https://doi.org/10.3390/life12101591

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