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Recursiveness, Switching, and Fluctuations in a Replicating Catalytic Network
, 2003 A protocell model consisting of mutually catalyzing molecules is studied in order to investigate how chemical compositions are transferred recursively through cell divisions under replication errors.
B. Hess +16 more
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Biomimetic Iridescent Skin: Robust Prototissues Spontaneously Assembled from Photonic Protocells
Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 26, 30 March 2026.Uniform nanoparticles are induced to form arrays (photonic crystals) in the cores of biopolymer capsules, endowing these ‘protocells’ with structural color. These protocells are then assembled into large self‐standing objects, i.e., prototissues, with robust mechanical properties as well as iridescent optical properties.
Medha Rath +6 more
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Norm-Establishing and Norm-Following in Autonomous Agency [PDF]
, 2013 Living agency is subject to a normative dimension (good-bad, adaptive-maladaptive) that is absent from other types of interaction. We review current and historical attempts to naturalize normativity from an organism-centered perspective, identifying two ...
Barandiaran, Xabier, Egbert, Matthew
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Advanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 13, 3 March 2026.Merging materials processing tricks inspired by mussel and mistletoe fiber fabrication, solutions of cationic mussel byssus proteins were mixed with modified anionic nanocrystalline cellulose, producing distinctive core‐shell condensates. Simple processing of condensate suspensions using freeze‐drying produced hierarchically structured porous protein ...
Hamideh R. Alanagh +9 more
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Reconciling Ligase Ribozyme Activity with Fatty Acid Vesicle Stability
Life, 2014 The “RNA world” and the “Lipid world” theories for the origin of cellular life are often considered incompatible due to the differences in the environmental conditions at which they can emerge.
Fabrizio Anella, Christophe Danelon
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Synergism and Mutualism in Non-Enzymatic RNA Polymerization
Life, 2014 The link between non-enzymatic RNA polymerization and RNA self-replication is a key step towards the “RNA world” and still far from being solved, despite extensive research.
Hussein Kaddour, Nita Sahai
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Exploring evolutionary stability in a concurrent artificial chemistry [PDF]
, 2008 Multi-level selection has proven to be an affective mean to provide resistance against parasites for catalytic networks (Cronhjort and Blomberg, 1997).
Decraene, James +2 more
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Current Ideas about Prebiological Compartmentalization
Life, 2015 Contemporary biological cells are highly sophisticated dynamic compartment systems which separate an internal volume from the external medium through a boundary, which controls, in complex ways, the exchange of matter and energy between the cell’s ...
Pierre-Alain Monnard, Peter Walde
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, 2017 Finding an adequate definition of "life" has proven to be a tricky affair. In this article, I discuss the idea that nothing is really alive: we only say so.
Benovsky, Jiri
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A molecular approach to complex adaptive systems [PDF]
, 2007 Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are dynamical networks of interacting agents which as a whole determine the behavior, adaptivity and cognitive ability of the system. CAS are ubiquitous and occur in a variety of natural and artificial systems (e.g., cells,
Decraene, James +2 more
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