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Deamer, D.W., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., Bernstein, M. P., Allamandola, L. J. (2003). The First Cell Membranes Astrobiology 2, 371-381. [PDF]

Peeters, E., S. Hony, C. VanKerckhoven, A. G. G.M. Tielens, L. J. Allamandola, D. M. Hudgins, & C. W. Bauschlicher (2002). The Rich 6 to 9 micron Spectrum of Interstellar PAHs. A&A 390, 1089-1113. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Elsila, J. E., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., Allamandola, L. J. & Zare, R. N. (2002). Side group Addition to the PAH Coronene by UV Photolysis in Cosmic Ice analogs. Astrophys. J 576, 1115-1120. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., Cooper, G. W., & Allamandola, L. J. (2002). Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues. Nature 416, 401-403. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J. (2001). Ultraviolet Irradiation of Naphthalene in H₂O Ice: Implications for Meteorites and Biogenesis. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, 351-358. [PDF]

Dworkin, J. P., Deamer, D. W., Sandford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J. (2001). Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Molecules: Synthesis in Simulated Interstellar/Precometary Ices. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98, 815-819. [PDF]

Sandford, S. A., Dworkin, J. P., Deamer, D. W., & Allamandola, L. J. (2001). Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Molecules: A Possible Linkage Between Interstellar Chemistry and Meteoritic Organics. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, A181-182. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Sandford, S. A.,& Allamandola, L. J. (2000). Molecules from Space and the Origin of Life. In The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos, D. Levi (ed.), (Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. and Scientific American), pp. 265-272.

Bernstein, M. P., Sandford, S. A., Allamandola, L. J., Dworkin, J. P., Gillette, S. J., & Zare, R. N. (2000). Formation of Prebiotic Molecules in Interstellar and Cometary Ices. In Bioastronomy '99: A new Era in Bioastronomy, eds. G. Lemarchand & K. Meech, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 213, (Sheridan Books: Chelsea, MI), pp. 197-205.

Brinton, K. L. F., McDonald, G. D., Dworkin, J. P., Levy, M., Miller, S. L. & Bada, J. L. (2000). The cosmogeochemistry of amino acid synthesis from hydrogen cyanide. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 30, 227. [PDF]

Dworkin J. P., Deamer, D. W., Sandford, S. A., Allamandola, L. J., Gillette, J. S., & Zare, R. N. (2000). Simulations of Cometary Ice: Large Molecule Synthesis and Self-assembly Properties. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 30, 228-229. [PDF]

Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., Allamandola, L. J., Deamer, D. W., Gillette, S. J., & Zare, R. N. (2000). Syntheisis of Large Molecules in Cometary Ice Analogs: Physical Properties Related to Self-Assembly Processes. In Bioastronomy '99: A new Era in Bioastronomy, eds. G. Lemarchand & K. Meech, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 213, (Sheridan Books: Chelsea, MI), pp. 195-196.

Jasien, P. G., Miller, S. L., Levy, M., & Dworkin, J. P. (2000). How could life have arisen on Earth? In ChemConnections, C. B. Moore, B. Spencer & T. Schwartz, eds., (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York). Amazon.com.

Bernstein, M. P., Sandford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J. (1999). Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials. Scientific American 281, #1, 42-49 (also the cover). [Text]

Dworkin, J.P. (1997) Alternatives to uracil in the preRNA world. Biochemistry disseration, University of California, San Diego. Advisor: S.L. Miller.

Dworkin, J. P. (1997). Attempted prebiotic synthesis of pseudouridine. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 27, 345-355. [PDF]

Dworkin, J. P., & Miller, S. L. (1996). The relative reactivity of deoxyribose and ribose: Did DNA come before RNA? Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 26, 412-413.

Sandford, S. (1996). Review of Life in the Universe (A Scientific American Special Issue). Meteoritics and Planetary Science 31, 315.

Kolb, V. M., Dworkin, J. P., & Miller, S. L. (1994). Alternative bases in the RNA world: the prebiotic synthesis of urazole and its ribosides. J. Molec. Evol. 38, 549-557.

Kolb, V. M., Dworkin, J. P., & Miller, S. L. (1994). Urazole is a potential precursor to uracil. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 24, 107-108.

Robertson, M.P., Dworkin, J. P., & Miller, S. L. (1994). Prebiotic synthesis of hydroxymethyluracil and some tRNA bases. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 24, 109-110.

Mar, A., Dworkin, J., & Oró, J. (1987). Non-enzymatic synthesis of the coenzymes, uridine diphosphate glucose and cytidine diphosphate choline, and other phosphorylated metabolic intermediates. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 17, 307-319.

Mar, A., Dworkin, J., Porbunderwalla, S., & Oró, J. (1986). Non-enzymatic synthesis of UDPG and phosphorylated metabolic intermediates. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 16, 388-389.