Visualization of the spontaneous emergence of a complex, dynamic, and autocatalytic system
Autocatalytic chemical reactions are widely studied as models of biological processes and to better understand the origins of life on earth. Minimal self-reproducing amphiphiles have been developed in this context, and as an approach to de novo ‘bottom-up’ synthetic protocells. How chemicals come to...
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National Academy of Science
2016
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