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Modelling Lipid Competition Dynamics in Heterogeneous Protocell Populations
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014-07-14)
Recent experimental work in the field of synthetic protocell biology has shown that prebiotic vesicles are able to 'steal' lipids from each other. This phenomenon is driven purely by asymmetries in the physical state or ...
Viability Conditions for a Compartmentalized Protometabolic System: A Semi-Empirical Approach
(Public Library Science, 2012-06)
In this work we attempt to find out the extent to which realistic prebiotic compartments, such as fatty acid vesicles, would constrain the chemical network dynamics that could have sustained a minimal form of metabolism. ...
Understanding “plausibility”: A relational approach to the anticipatory heuristics of future scenarios
(Elsevier, 2019-05-13)
The creation of future scenarios is considered a valuable methodological tool for shaping the anticipatory governance of emerging technologies. Although plausibility is presented as a necessary (but not sufficient) criterion ...