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Selfishness versus functional cooperation in a stochastic protocell model [PDF]
, 2010 How to design an "evolvable" artificial system capable to increase in complexity? Although Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection obviously offers a firm foundation, little hope of success seems to be expected from the explanatory adequacy of ...
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Predatory behaviour in synthetic protocell communities [PDF]
, 2017 Recent progress in the chemical construction of colloidal objects comprising integrated biomimetic functions is paving the way towards rudimentary forms of artificial cell-like entities (protocells). Although several new types of protocells are currently
A Pohorille +40 more
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Protocells: Milestones and Recent Advances
Small, 2022 AbstractThe origin of life is still one of humankind's great mysteries. At the transition between nonliving and living matter, protocells, initially featureless aggregates of abiotic matter, gain the structure and functions necessary to fulfill the criteria of life.
Gözen, Irep +8 more
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Lipid vesicles chaperone an encapsulated RNA aptamer. [PDF]
, 2018 The organization of molecules into cells is believed to have been critical for the emergence of living systems. Early protocells likely consisted of RNA functioning inside vesicles made of simple lipids.
Chen, Irene A +2 more
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Engineering Protocells: Prospects for Self-Assembly and Nanoscale Production-Lines
Life, 2015 The increasing ease of producing nucleic acids and proteins to specification offers potential for design and fabrication of artificial synthetic “organisms” with a myriad of possible capabilities.
David M. Miller, Jacqueline M. Gulbis
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Is defining life pointless? Operational definitions at the frontiers of Biology [PDF]
, 2016 Despite numerous and increasing attempts to define what life is, there is no consensus on necessary and sufficient conditions for life. Accordingly, some scholars have questioned the value of definitions of life and encouraged scientists and philosophers
Bich, Leonardo, Green, Sara
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From molecular to cellular form: modeling the first major transition during the arising of life
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background It has long been suggested that Darwinian evolution may have started at the molecular level and subsequently proceeded to a level with membrane boundary, i.e., of protocells.
Shaolin Yin +3 more
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A spatial model of autocatalytic reactions
, 2010 Biological cells with all of their surface structure and complex interior stripped away are essentially vesicles - membranes composed of lipid bilayers which form closed sacs.
Alan J. McKane +12 more
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Preliminary steps toward artificial protocell computation [PDF]
, 2007 Protocells are hypothesised as a transitional phase in the origin of life, prior to the evolution of fully functional prokaryotic cells. The work reported here is being done in the context of the PACE project, which is investigating the fabrication of ...
Decraene, James +4 more
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Advanced NanoBiomed Research, 2021 Regulating gene expression is an important goal for the development of artificial cells that have the ability to replicate the functions of living cells.
Jian Liu +9 more
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