Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

The generation of synthetic forms of cellular life requires solutions to the problem of how biological processes such as cyclic growth and division could emerge from purely physical and chemical systems. Small unilamellar fatty acid vesicles grow when fed with fatty acid micelles and can be forced t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhu, Ting, Szostak, Jack W.
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73199