| Prebiotic amino acids bind to and stabilize prebiotic fatty acid membranes CE Cornell, RA Black, M Xue, HE Litz, A Ramsay, M Gordon, A Mileant, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (35), 17239-17244, 2019 | 105 | 2019 |
| The thermodynamic efficiency of computations made in cells across the range of life CP Kempes, D Wolpert, Z Cohen, J Pérez-Mercader Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2017 | 64 | 2017 |
| Growth of prebiotically plausible fatty acid vesicles proceeds in the presence of prebiotic amino acids, dipeptides, sugars, and nucleic acid components ZR Todd, ZR Cohen, DC Catling, SL Keller, RA Black Langmuir 38 (49), 15106-15112, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Prebiotic protocell membranes retain encapsulated contents during flocculation, and phospholipids preserve encapsulation during dehydration ZR Cohen, CE Cornell, DC Catling, RA Black, SL Keller Langmuir 38 (3), 1304-1310, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Binding of dipeptides to fatty acid membranes explains their colocalization in protocells but does not select for them relative to unjoined amino acids M Xue, RA Black, ZR Cohen, A Roehrich, GP Drobny, SL Keller The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 125 (29), 7933-7939, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| Plausible Sources of Membrane-Forming Fatty Acids on the Early Earth: A Review of the Literature and an Estimation of Amounts ZR Cohen, ZR Todd, N Wogan, RA Black, SL Keller, DC Catling ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 7 (1), 11-27, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Prebiotic Membranes and Micelles Do Not Inhibit Peptide Formation During Dehydration ZR Cohen, BL Kessenich, A Hazra, J Nguyen, RS Johnson, MJ MacCoss, ... ChemBioChem 23 (3), e202100614, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Prebiotic vesicles retain solutes and grow by micelle addition after brief cooling below the membrane melting temperature ZR Cohen, ZR Todd, DC Catling, RA Black, SL Keller Langmuir 38 (44), 13407-13413, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Frontiers in prebiotic chemistry and early Earth environments UF Müller, J Elsila, D Trail, S DasGupta, CC Giese, CR Walton, ZR Cohen, ... Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 52 (1), 165-181, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ripples at edges of blooming lilies and torn plastic sheets T Portet, ZR Cohen, GJ Goetz, N Panek, PN Holmes, SA Stephens, ... Biophysical Journal 121 (12), 2389-2397, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stabilization of Prebiotic Vesicles by Peptides Depends on Sequence and Chirality: A Mechanism for Selection of Protocell-Associated Peptides ZR Cohen, ZR Todd, L Maibaum, DC Catling, RA Black Langmuir, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life ZR Cohen, D Ding, L Zhou, S DasGupta, S Haas, KP Sinclair, ZR Todd, ... PNAS Nexus 3 (3), pgae084, 2024 | | 2024 |
