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Protocells : Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (723 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262282093
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ProtocellsDDC classification:
  • 576.8/3
LOC classification:
  • QH501.P76 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I OVERVIEW: BRIDGING NONLIVING AND LIVING MATTER -- 1 The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life -- 2 Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life -- 3 Semisynthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives -- 4 A Roadmap to Protocells -- II INTEGRATION -- 5 Steps Toward a Synthetic Protocell -- 6 Assembly of a Minimal Protocell -- 7 Population Analysis of Liposomes with Protein Synthesis and a Cascading Genetic Network -- 8 Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments -- 9 Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry -- 10 Models of Protocell Replication -- 11 Compositional Lipid Protocells: Reproduction without Polynucleotides -- 12 Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells -- III COMPONENTS -- 13 Self-Replication and Autocatalysis -- 14 Replicator Dynamics in Protocells -- 15 Peptide Nucleic Acids as Prebiotic and Abiotic Genetic Material -- 16 The Core of a Minimal Gene Set: Insights from Natural Reduced Genomes -- 17 Parasitism and Protocells:Tragedy of the Molecular Commons -- 18 Forming the Essential Template for Life: The Physics of Lipid Self- Assembly -- 19 Numerical Methods for Protocell Simulations -- 20 Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System -- 21 Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life -- IV BROADER CONTEXT -- 22 Ganti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria -- 23 Viral Individuality and Limitations of the Life Concept -- 24 Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life: The Inorganic-Physical Chemist Point of View -- 25 Early Ancestors of Existing Cells -- 26 Prebiotic Chemistry, the Primordial Replicator, and Modern Protocells -- 27 Cell-like Entities: Scientific Challenges and Future Applications -- 28 Social and Ethical Issues Concerning Protocells.
Glossary -- About the Authors -- Index -- Color Plates.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I OVERVIEW: BRIDGING NONLIVING AND LIVING MATTER -- 1 The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life -- 2 Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life -- 3 Semisynthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives -- 4 A Roadmap to Protocells -- II INTEGRATION -- 5 Steps Toward a Synthetic Protocell -- 6 Assembly of a Minimal Protocell -- 7 Population Analysis of Liposomes with Protein Synthesis and a Cascading Genetic Network -- 8 Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments -- 9 Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry -- 10 Models of Protocell Replication -- 11 Compositional Lipid Protocells: Reproduction without Polynucleotides -- 12 Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells -- III COMPONENTS -- 13 Self-Replication and Autocatalysis -- 14 Replicator Dynamics in Protocells -- 15 Peptide Nucleic Acids as Prebiotic and Abiotic Genetic Material -- 16 The Core of a Minimal Gene Set: Insights from Natural Reduced Genomes -- 17 Parasitism and Protocells:Tragedy of the Molecular Commons -- 18 Forming the Essential Template for Life: The Physics of Lipid Self- Assembly -- 19 Numerical Methods for Protocell Simulations -- 20 Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System -- 21 Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life -- IV BROADER CONTEXT -- 22 Ganti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria -- 23 Viral Individuality and Limitations of the Life Concept -- 24 Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life: The Inorganic-Physical Chemist Point of View -- 25 Early Ancestors of Existing Cells -- 26 Prebiotic Chemistry, the Primordial Replicator, and Modern Protocells -- 27 Cell-like Entities: Scientific Challenges and Future Applications -- 28 Social and Ethical Issues Concerning Protocells.

Glossary -- About the Authors -- Index -- Color Plates.

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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