The Minimal Cell The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Luisi, Pier Luigi (Editor), Stano, Pasquale (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene expression.; Biotechnology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cell Biology.; Gene Expression.

In the last ten years there has been a considerable increase of interest on the notion of the minimal cell. With this term we usually mean a cell-like structure containing the minimal and sufficient number of components to be defined as alive, or at least capable of displaying some of the fundamenta...