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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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.

English.

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