Chemical Synthesis of Life (Biotechnology and Society)

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Protocell consisting of a fatty acid vesicle encapsulating nucleic acids. From ExploringOrigins.org.

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. "Oil droplets mimic early life." Nature News Feb. 2011. Read Article [Marchant2011]
    News article describing Hanczyc and Szostak systems.
  2. "The line between life and not-life" TED Talk May 2011. Martin Hanczyc TED Talk "The line between life and not-life" (15 min) [Hanczyc2011]
  3. * Jack Szostak Lecture [Szostak]
    You can skip past the general intro to minute 10 with the slide "Modern Life".
  1. more lectures. Jack Szostak Lectures on the Origin of Cellular Life on Earth [Two]
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