Starting form scratch
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Steven Benner, a chemist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, organized a meeting to explore the possibilities for making artificial chemical systems that mimic essential features of living things. Virologist Eckard Wimmer and his team had built live poliovirus from scratch using mail-order segments of DNA and a viral genome map in a demonstration of the potential risks.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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The consequences of imperfect mixing in autocatalytic chemical and biological systems
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Various types of complex features occur when chemical reaction rate increases in direct proportion to the product concentration in imperfectly mixed systems. The various features include stochastic and chaotic characteristics, which result in the occurrence of one final state over another equally probable state. Such phenomena occur in ubiquitous non-linear systems.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Oscillatory cluster patterns in a homogeneous chemical system with global feedback
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A study of clusters is presented with reference to their behavior in extended chemical systems. Antiphase oscillations and other observations from this reaction with global feedback are described.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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