Protocells (eBook)

Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter

Mark A. Bedau, Liaohai Chen, David Deamer, David C. Krakauer, Norman H. Packard, Steen Rasmussen, Peter F. Stadler (Herausgeber)

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2008
712 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-28209-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The first comprehensive general resource on state-of-the-art protocell research, describing current approaches to making new forms of life from scratch in the laboratory. Protocells offers a comprehensive resource on current attempts to create simple forms of life from scratch in the laboratory. These minimal versions of cells, known as protocells, are entities with lifelike properties created from nonliving materials, and the book provides in-depth investigations of processes at the interface between nonliving and living matter. Chapters by experts in the field put this state-of-the-art research in the context of theory, laboratory work, and computer simulations on the components and properties of protocells. The book also provides perspectives on research in related areas and such broader societal issues as commercial applications and ethical considerations. The book covers all major scientific approaches to creating minimal life, both in the laboratory and in simulation. It emphasizes the bottom-up view of physicists, chemists, and material scientists but also includes the molecular biologists' top-down approach and the origin-of-life perspective. The capacity to engineer living technology could have an enormous socioeconomic impact and could bring both good and ill. Protocells promises to be the essential reference for research on bottom-up assembly of life and living technology for years to come. It is written to be both resource and inspiration for scientists working in this exciting and important field and a definitive text for the interested layman.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2008
• Co-Autor: James Bailey, David Deamer, Andrew D. Ellington, Harold Fellermann, John M. Frazier, Toni Gabaldon, Rosario Gil, Goran Goranovic, James R. Griesemer, Martin M Hanczy, Henderson James Cleaves II, Mark A. Bedau, Takashi Ikegami, Keitaro Ishikawa, Ask F. Jakobsen, Yi Jiang, Kunihiko Kaneko, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane, Gunter von Kiedrowski, Chad Knutson, David C. Krakauer, Doron Lancet, James Boncella, Amparo Latorre, Matthew Levy, Pier Luigi Luisi, Javier Macia, Duraid Madina, Jerzy Maselko, Maciej Maselko, John S. McCaskill, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Harold J. Morowitz, Irene A Chen, Fouzi Mouffouk, Ole G. Mouritsen, Andre Moya, Andreea Munteanu, Giovanni Murtas, Peter Nielsen, Naoaki Ono, Norman H. Packard, Oleg Paliy, Emily C. Parke, Liaohai Chen, Volker Patzke, Juli Pereto, Andrew Pohorille, Steen Rasmussen, Mauricio Rodriguez Rodriguez, Josep Sardanyes, Kanetomo Sato, Peter Sazani, Anjana Sen, Barak Shenshaw, Stirling Colgate, Andy Shreve, Zachary Booth Simpson, Eric Smith, Ricard V Sole, Barbel M. R. Stadler, Peter F. Stadler, Pasquale Stano, Takeshi Sunami, Eors Szathmary, Jack W Szostak, Gavin Collis, Jeffrey J. Tabor, Arvydas Tamulis, Melanie Tomczak, Bryan Travis, Sandra Trott, Sergi Valverde, Leamon Viveros, Pawel Weronski, William Woodruff, Tetsuya Yomo, Shelley D. Copley, Paolo Zanotto, Jinsuo Zhang, Xin Zhou, Hans Ziock, Michael DeClue
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
• ISBN-10: 0-262-28209-7 / 0262282097
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-28209-3 / 9780262282093