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100 PROTOCELL LABS. "How many labs worldwide would you say are now working on protocell development and which are the key labs? I think there are more than 100, if the goal is working on different aspects of a protocell." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

SOME MORE THAN OTHERS. “It seems more appropriate to consider life as a continuum property of organizational patterns, with some more or less alive than others.” (Farmer & Belin, 1992). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

NOT THE LAST. "If you and I as humans create artificial living processes and machines that can copy themselves and ultimately evolve, where will this bring us? Considering that Homo Sapiens is a very, very recent invention in biological evolution, we as humans are naive if we believe we are the end product of evolution. I’m sure we are not. So there's certainly something to think about. It’s likely that we’ll help create the next major evolutionary step." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

NOT ABSOLUTE. “Life is not an absolute quality which suddenly appeared, it gradually emerged at the beginning of the evolution. [...] there is no clear boundary line.” (Cairns-Smith, 1990). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

HOLY GRAIL. "Von Neumann proved in the 1950s that machines exist that are able to make everything including copies of themselves, as long as the construction process can be expressed as recipes (algorithms). This defines the Universal Constructor, which is a mathematical machine, which has not yet been implemented." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

FOUNTAIN OF STEM CELLS. "This developmental plasticity is made possible by the supply of undifferentiated stem cells from shoot meristems through the course of a plant’s life. The floral transition is executed by the product of genes that confer floral meristem identity." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

MERISTEMS ENSURE PLASTICITY. "Plants ensure that they reproduce in favourable conditions. This developmental plasticity is made possible by the supply of undifferentiated stem cells from shoot meristems through the course of a plant’s life." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

ADAPTATION. "Plants meet the challenge of environmental change with developmental change as an adaptation to their sessile lifestyle. For example, many plants control the time at which they flower by monitoring and responding to environmental stimuli like light quality, daylength and temperature." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "It is the connection to the acceleration of floral initiation that distinguishes vernalization from other cold-related phenomena such as dormancy chilling and stratification. In woody perennials, floral primordia are formed during a growing season, but further development is arrested as plants enter dormancy in winter. The chilling of winter breaks dormancy, resulting in bud burst and the subsequent appearance of fully developed flowers. Stratification is the promotion of seed germination by cold, usually of only a few days duration." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

ANNUALS VS BIENNIALS. "Vernalization can be facultative or obligate. Winter annuals have a facultative vernalization requirement, as cold accelerates, but this is not required for flowering. Biennials, however, cannot flower without cold treatment and there- fore have an obligate requirement for vernalization. Summer annuals flower rapidly without a vernalization treatment." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn