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EVOLUTION: Transitions from Nonliving to Living Matter
Steen Rasmussen, Liaohai Chen, David Deamer, David C. Krakauer, Norman H. Packard, Peter F. Stadler, Mark A. Bedau
Researchers interested in the origins of life on Earth have long pondered what constitutes the transition from nonliving to living matter. In this meeting report, Rasmussen and colleagues discuss two recent workshops that were convened to describe the systems needed to synthesize simple life forms--called artificial cells or protocells--both in the laboratory and as simulations.
S. Rasmussen is at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. L. Chen is at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA. D. Deamer is at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. D. C. Krakauer is at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87506, USA. N. H. Packard is with ProtoLife Srl, Venice, Italy. P. F. Stadler is at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. M. A. Bedau is at Reed College, Portland, OR 97202, USA. E-mail: steen{at}lanl.gov (S.R.)
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Boguslaw Stec;, Steen Rasmussen, Mark A. Bedau, Liaohai Chen, David W. Deamer, David C. Krakauer, Norman H. Packard, and Peter F. Stadler (2 July 2004) Science305 (5680), 41.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.305.5680.41] |Full Text »|PDF »
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