At the origin of cell division: The features of living matter emerge from inanimate matter in simulation

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 19:52 in Physics & Chemistry

Droplets of filamentous material enclosed in a lipid membrane: these are the models of a “simplified” cell used by physicists who simulated the spontaneous emergence of cell motility and division - that is, features of living material - in inanimate “objects”.

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