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. 2014 May;11(5):495-8.
doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2893.

A synthetic approach to abiogenesis

James Attwater  1 , Philipp Holliger  1
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A synthetic approach to abiogenesis

James Attwater et al. Nat Methods. 2014 May.

Abstract

Synthetic biology seeks to probe fundamental aspects of biological form and function by construction (resynthesis) rather than deconstruction (analysis). Here we discuss how such an approach could be applied to assemble synthetic quasibiological systems able to replicate and evolve, illuminating universal properties of life and the search for its origins.

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