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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Main Authors: Zhu, Ting (Contributor), Szostak, Jack W. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS), 2012-09-27T13:02:44Z.
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