Jump-starting life? Fundamental aspects of synthetic biology

What is life and how could it originate? This question lies at the core of understanding the cell as the smallest living unit. Although we are witnessing a golden era of the life sciences, we are ironically still far from giving a convincing answer to this question. In this short article, I argue wh...

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Autor principal: Schwille, Petra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4555829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26323686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201506125
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spelling pubmed-45558292016-02-29 Jump-starting life? Fundamental aspects of synthetic biology Schwille, Petra J Cell Biol News What is life and how could it originate? This question lies at the core of understanding the cell as the smallest living unit. Although we are witnessing a golden era of the life sciences, we are ironically still far from giving a convincing answer to this question. In this short article, I argue why synthetic biology in conjunction with the quantitative sciences may provide us with new concepts and tools to address it. The Rockefeller University Press 2015-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4555829/ /pubmed/26323686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201506125 Text en © 2015 Schwille This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
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