Synthetic protocell biology: From reproduction to computation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1486, 2007, Pages 1727-1739

  Solé, Ricard V ^a,b   Munteanu, Andreea ^a   Rodriguez Caso, Carlos ^a   Macía, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cell membrane; Cells; Information; Metabolism; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; INFORMATION; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 35148900129     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2065     Document Type: Review

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