@article{fox1957the,
    author = "Fox, Sidney W.",
    title = "The chemical problem of spontaneous generation",
    year = "1957",
    journal = "Journal of Chemical Education",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1021/ed034p472",
    doi = "10.1021/ed034p472",
    number = "10",
    pages = "472",
    volume = "34"
}

@article{fox1957the1,
    author = "Fox, S. W",
    title = "The chemical problem of spontaneous generation",
    year = "1957",
    journal = "Journal of Chemical Education, v. 34, p. 472-479",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Fox, S. W., 1957, The chemical problem of spontaneous generation: Journal of Chemical Education, v. 34, p. 472-479.}"
}

@article{fox1968spontaneous,
    author = "Fox, Sidney W.",
    title = "Spontaneous generation, the origin of life, and self assembly",
    year = "1968",
    journal = "Biosystems",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/0303-2647(68)90047-6",
    doi = "10.1016/0303-2647(68)90047-6",
    number = "5",
    pages = "235-240",
    volume = "2"
}

@misc{fox1968spontaneous2,
    author = "Fox, S. W",
    title = "Spontaneous generation, the origin of life, and self assembly",
    year = "1968",
    howpublished = "Current Models in Biology [Now BioSystems], v. 2, p. 235-240; Now BioSystems",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Fox, S. W., 1968, Spontaneous generation, the origin of life, and self assembly: Current Models in Biology [Now BioSystems], v. 2, p. 235-240; Now BioSystems.}"
}

@article{andbernadotte2017selfassembly,
    author = "Bernadotte, Alexandra and Semenova, Valeriya and Musial, Vitor A.M. and Kasprzykowska, Anna and Zubarev, Roman A.",
    title = "Self-assembly of Deinococcus radiodurans supports nanocell scenario of life origin",
    year = "2017",
    journal = "Discoveries",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2017.2",
    doi = "10.15190/d.2017.2",
    number = "1",
    pages = "e72",
    volume = "5"
}

@article{doi101002marc201800513,
    author = "Cheng, Gong and Pérez-Mercader, Juan",
    title = "Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly for Artificial Biology: Opportunities and Challenges.",
    year = "2019",
    journal = "Macromolecular rapid communications",
    abstract = "The study of the origin of life and current undergoing efforts to produce artificial chemical systems mimicking the behavior of natural living systems have emerged as a hot topic at the interfaces among disciplines. In these two problems, the spontaneous generation of free-energy gradients by means of material interfaces plays a central role and, until recently, hindered progress. Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) is a promising strategy for the formation of polymeric vesicles from a homogeneous mixture which, in the form of artificial biology, may reflect and inform the generation of vesicular structures in primitive Earth. In the past few years, PISA has been used for the construction of biomimetic vesicles or artificial protocells in artificial biology. These not only give inspiration for decoding some aspects of the origin of life in arbitrary environments but also offer potential for building innovative functional systems with a wide variety of applications. In this review, a brief summary of some of the unique possibilities offered by PISA and the development of PISA in exploration of artificial biology is provided, while some of the allied current challenges, limitations, and opportunities in this exciting field are highlighted.",
    url = "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30216588/",
    doi = "10.1002/marc.201800513",
    pmid = "30216588"
}

@misc{abel2024assembly,
    author = "Abel, Dr. David Lynn",
    title = "Assembly Theory and Life Origin",
    year = "2024",
    abstract = "Any homeostatic protometabolism would have required orchestration of disparate biochemical pathways into integrated circuits. Extraordinarily specific moieties were also required. Assembly Theory conflated with its cousins—Complexity Theory, Chaos theory, Quantum Mechanics, Irreversible Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Molecular Evolution theory— collectively have great naturalistic appeal in hopes of their providing the needed exquisite steering and controls. They collectively offer the best hope of circumventing the need for active selection required to formally orchestrate bona fide formal organization (as opposed to the mere self-ordering of chaos theory) [1]. This paper focuses specifically on Assembly Theory’s contribution to life-origin models.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1491.v1",
    doi = "10.20944/preprints202407.1491.v1"
}