Minimal-cell system created in laboratory by self-organization

✍ Scribed by Erzilia Lozneanu; Mircea Sanduloviciu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-0779
• DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0779(02)00662-8

✦ Synopsis

Essentially based on nonlinear effects of quantum processes a self-organization scenario able to explain the emergence in laboratory of a complex gaseous space charge configuration displaying features like of a primitive organism is described. Possible also under primitive earth conditions the emergence of a similar complexity could be the prerequisite physical phenomenon needed for a further biochemical evolution. Governed by an intrinsic self-assembling mechanism involving local self-enhancement complemented by long-range inhibition, this scenario of self-organization offers a new insight into a phenomenology potentially able to explain the origin of life.