From the article:
"A team of biologists and chemists [lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular
biologist at Harvard Medical School] is closing in on bringing non-living
matter to life.
It's not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack
Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building
simple cell models that can almost be called life."
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html
There's a video entitled "A Protocell Forming from Fatty Acids." It's
fascinating and, at the same time, a bit scary.
Paper co-authored by Szostak published this month:
Thermostability of model protocell membranes
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/09/02/0805086105.full.pdf+html
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