Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology

As all distinctions, the division between life and non-life is an artificial one. Although useful for some purposes, it may narrow down alternative options of exploration. Recent interest in spatial, periodic and wave properties of chemical systems (e.g. , Liesegang patterns, 7 Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction, 10•22 Benard convection cells, 13 viscous "salt fingers" and precipitate "needles" 15 ) reflects the resurfacing of the timeless notions of self-organization, spontaneous formation, and membraneous

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