We’re ready for submissions to our new publishing model. We think this process is faster, fairer and more transparent and we invite you to join us in this new era of publishing today. elifesciences.org/inside-elife/7…

🚨 New from American Physical Society, it’s #PRXLife 🚨 Our #OpenAccess journal will feature interdisciplinary research related to physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, medicine and engineering. journals.aps.org/prxlife/

💬 We're excited to share the second feature of our two-part series on #OriginOfLife research: 🦠 "Unravelling the Origin of Life: Digging Deeper" ✍️🏽 Written by Angad Yuvraj, Harshwardhan Jain, #NayanChakraborty & edited by 𓆉 Siddharth Kankaria/ सिद्धार्थ कांकरिया (he/him) 💻 Read: news.ncbs.res.in/research-expla…

👏🏽 Congratulations to Yoshiya Matsubara (松原 嘉哉), Nobuto Takeuchi & Kunihiko Kaneko for their latest Physical Review Research paper: 📰 "Avoidance of error catastrophe via proofreading innate to template-directed polymerization" 💻 journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…

Very excited to share our work on autocatalytic self-assembly of RNA and the formation of catalytic reaction networks within the confines of coacervate compartments. Walter Gilbert meets Kauffman + Dyson meets Oparin + Haldane. nature.com/articles/s4200…

🎉 Hearty congratulations to Dr Sandeep Ameta for joining Ashoka University as an Assistant Professor of Biology last week! 🔬 Sandeep Ameta was previously an independent Campus Fellow with us and worked closely with colleagues like Shashi Thutupalli & Sandeep Krishna at National Centre for Biological Sciences!

Excited to share our manuscript just accepted in Chemical Science. We identified an RNA oligomer that self-reproduces via prebiotically accessible chemistry by examining short random RNA pools. pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art… I will tweet again once the final version is published.

We’re looking for postdocs at the Simons Centre at National Centre for Biological Sciences. Those with backgrounds in Physics and Quantitative Sciences with a strong interest in Biology — both theorists and experimentalists —are encouraged to apply! Please help us spread the word.

The real star behind our Science Gallery Bengaluru exhibit at the Indiranagar Namma Metro statio (@cpronammametro). Nayan has been driving the ಜೀವಾಣು project with immense creativity and energy. Stay tuned for some interesting science updates (hopefully soon!)

Indeed, new and exciting opportunities at Chicago for physics+math of living systems. Related and time sensitive: two independent postdoc fellowship opportunities - apply or contact me/others for more info: centerforlivingsystems.uchicago.edu/postdoctoral-f… nitmb.org/nitmb-fellows-…

Out now - a long simmering project: A minimal scenario for the origin of non-equilibrium order. arxiv.org/abs/2405.10911 Led by Riccardo Ravasio Riccardo Ravasio and Kabir Husain @kabir8husain (now at UCL); + fun collab with Constantine Evans, Rob Phillips, Jack Szostak Szostak Lab

Out today in J. Am. Chem. Soc., the Jack Szostak lab continues to unpack the complex world of RNA interactions, revealing how upstream oligonucleotides impact downstream binding. Szostak Lab HHMI @theserbianator pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our paper about early multicellular groups overcoming biophysical constraints is now out on the bioRxiv — biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Will does a fantastic job of the storytelling and you’ll get the details in this thread.

Open postdoc and PhD student position at the Universal Biology project at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen uncovering universal characteristics and laws in life systems, with the spirit of theoretical physics employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=… 👇👇👇

We exposed yeast to -196 C freeze-thaw (without cryoprotectants) and interesting things happened -- the survival went up from about 1% to close to 80% in just 25 cycles! The preprint is out and feedback is highly welcome -- biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our latest paper published in PNAS! We introduced a new game-theoretical framework, "evolutionary dynamical-systems game theory," to explain how rules for sustainable resource use self-organize. 🔗 pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Thank you for joining us for day 1 of the Mathematics of the Origin of Life and Self-Organized Complexity workshop! We're excited to welcome you back tomorrow to continue the week's discussions

We are specifically looking for creative chemists to work on a project related to the origins of life, emergence of protocells and complexification of chemistry. If you are interested, please reach out to discuss the science and possibilities.

A new paper on an issue that has been discussed for more than a century -- how can fundamental biophysical constraints on nutrient transport be overcome to solve one of the most significant challenges associated with the evolution of multicellularity? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our review paper on “central dogma” is just out: Nobuto Takeuchi and Kunihiko Kaneko, “Generalizing the central dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 380: 20240296. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…