Teams of scientists around the world are racing to create protocells--microscopic, self-organizing entities that spontaneously assemble from simple organic and

The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of met

The first comprehensive general resource on state-of-the-art protocell research, describing current approaches to making new forms of life from scratch in the l

Throughout the ages architects have attempted to capture the essence of living systems as design inspiration. However, practitioners of the built environment ha