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‘In a way, I hope that I don’t realise what we’re going to do in the next 10 years. Because that will hopefully take us somewhere new, somewhere exciting’ – Matt Powner explains his work investigating the chemical origins of life chemistryworld.com/news/adding-co…

Congratulations to 2021 @Blavatnikawards 🇬🇧 Finalist 🏅 in Chemistry, from @UCL, Professor Matthew Powner Matthew Powner UCLmaps UCL Chemistry UCL News #Blavatnik2021 bit.nyas.org/3n0x0Yb #originsoflife Chemistry ⚗

A 3-year PhD studentship is available UCL Chemistry to exploit and enhance prebiotic chemical pathways using RNA - a joint project within my group and Matthew Powner's Apply by Jan 31st: ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/stud…

Our latest paper on prebiotic peptide synthesis in water J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… by Jyoti singh Daniel Whitaker Benji Thoma Saidul Islam @DrCallumFoden Abil Aliev @SheppardTomD UCL Chemistry UCL

News & views rdcu.be/cQRcm highlighting our paper Nature Chemistry rdcu.be/cQRc6 thanks Yingyu Liu & Yajun Wang!

Proline & phosphate co-catalysed aldol chemistry UCL UCL Chemistry ProtoMet-ETN great work by Alvaro F Magalhaes found here pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Chemical Communications

Fully funded 4-year PhD available in our Matthew Powner group & with @SheppardTomD UCL Chemistry or please retweet findaphd.com/phds/project/a… ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/stud…

Organic chemistry underpins biology and the origins of life, but how it all began remains a fundamental question. Postdoc opportunities in our lab UCL Chemistry UCL with @SheppardTomD apply now: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Our latest paper on Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… great work by Benji Thoma UCL Chemistry UCL J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water UCL #Lysine #Peptides #Prebiotic #DiaminopropionicAcid #Nitriles #Water #OriginofLife pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

🦠🌍 A key part of the puzzle to work out how life emerged on Earth may have been found British scientists have identified a crucial ingredient that was present four billion years ago Shows life could have begun in lakes 🌊 edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynam…

Pantetheine, which helps enzymes to work and is found in every organism, can be formed by simple reactions and may have played a role in the origins of life newscientist.com/article/241851…

A compound vital to all living things has been formed through simple reactions in a lab, suggesting it played a role at the outset of life, finds a new study led by Prof Matthew Powner, Jasper Fairchild UCL Chemistry UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences & Saidul Islam King's Chemistry ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/feb/…

Researchers have successfully created a compound critical for metabolism in all living cells, which is essential for energy production and regulation. wapo.st/3OWHI1N

Looking for a chemistry PhD fellowship? Want to study one of the most exciting and fundamental questions in science? We have a position open for applications right now @UCL UCL Chemistry to study the chemical origins of life: findaphd.com/phds/project/n…