Transitions from Nonliving to Living Matter
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- 13 February 2004
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 303 (5660) , 963-965
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1093669
Abstract
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.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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