Envelope for an artificial cell

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 07:00 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life.

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