Protocells : bridging nonliving and living matter

Protocells : bridging nonliving and living matter / edited by Steen Rasmussen [and others].

The first comprehensive general resource on state-of-the-art protocell research, describing current approaches to making new forms of life from scratch in the laboratory.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rasmussen, Steen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Artificial cells.
Life (Biology)
Cells.
Cell physiology.
Biological models.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Cells
Cell physiology
Biological models
Artificial cells
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Table of Contents:
  • The early history of protocells: the search for the recipe of life / Martin M. Hanczyc
  • Experimental approaches to fabricating artificial cellular life / David Deamer
  • Semisynthetic minimal cells: new advancements and perspectives / Pasquale Stano, Giovanni Murtas, and Pier Luigi Luisi
  • A roadmap to protocells / Steen Rasmussen [and others]
  • Steps towards a synthetic protocell / Martin M. Hanczyc [and others]
  • Assembly of a minimal protocell / Steen Rasmussen [and others]
  • Population analysis of liposomes with protein synthesis and a cascading genetic network / Takeshi Sunami [and others]
  • Constructive approach to protocells: theory and experiments / Kunihiko Kaneko
  • Origin of life and lattice artificial chemistry / Naoaki Ono, Duraid Madina, and Takashi Ikegami
  • Models of protocells replication / Richard V. Solé [and others]
  • Compositional lipid protocells: reproduction without polynucleotides / Doron Lancet and Barak Shenhav
  • Evolutionary microfluidic complementation toward artificial cells / John S. McCaskill
  • Self-replication and autocatalysis / Volker Patzke and Günter von Kiedrowski
  • Replicator dynamics in protocells / Peter F. Stadler and Bärbel M.R. Stadler
  • Peptide nucleic acids as prebiotic and abiotic genetic material / Peter E. Nielsen
  • The core of a minimal gene set: insights from natural reduced genomes / Toni Gabaldón [and others]
  • Parasitism and protocells: tragedy of the molecular commons / Jeffery J. Tabor [and others]
  • Forming the essential template for life: the physics of lipid self-assembly / Ole G. Mouritsen and Ask F. Jakobsen
  • Numerical methods for protocell simulations / Yi Jiang [and others]
  • Core metabolism as a self-organized system / Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz, and Shelley D. Copley
  • Energetics, energy flow, and scaling in life / William H. Woodruff
  • Gánti's Chemoton Model and life criteria / James Griesemer and Eörs Szathmáry
  • Viral individuality and limitations of the life concept / David C. Krakauer and Paolo Zanotto
  • Nonlinear chemical dynamics and the origin of life: the inorganic-physical chemist point of view / Jerzy Maselko and Maciej Maselko
  • Early ancestors of existing cells / Andrew Pohorille
  • Prebiotic chemistry, the primordial replicator, and modern protocells / Henderson James Cleaves II
  • Cell-like entities: scientific challenges and future applications / John M. Frazier [and others]
  • Social and ethical issues concerning protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke.

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