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“THE QUESTION of the origin of life is currently dominated by the quest of mechanisms explaining the emergence of self‐replicating and self‐organizing systems.” Systems biology has its roots in such questions. https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1002/msb.20145351 View in LinkedIn

ALSO BY PROFESSOR LUISI. “Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality (Columbia Series in Science and Religion, 2010), by Pier Luisi (Author), Zara Houshmand. A keen study of character, Luisi incorporates his own amusing observations into this fascinating dialogue, painting a very human portrait of some of our greatest and most intimidating thinkers.” https://lnkd.in/dnVKMMK View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR LUISI. “In 1985 Luisi founded the "Cortona Week", an international, interdisciplinary summer school, under the general title "Sciences and the Wholeness of Life" - targeted mostly for graduate students and young managers, with the aim of forming a new class of society leaders, aware of the new frontiers of science, and also of the ecology, ethics and spirituality of life.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Luisi View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR LUISI. “He is now retired, his official being residence in Tavira Portugal, his post address is still in Rome, via della Lungara 3, 00165 RM, which is the seat of the APS (Association for Social Promotion) Cortonafriends, of which he is the President. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Luisi View in LinkedIn

Pier Luigi Luisi (born 23 May 1938) graduated in chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and is an Italian Professor Emeritus from the ETHZ, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he worked as a scientist from 1970 till 2003 - as full professor in chemistry since 1980 - to move then to the university of Rome as Professor of Biochemistry, till 2015.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Luisi View in LinkedIn

ARTICLE TITLE. “Prebiotic metabolic networks? By Pier Luigi Luisi, from the Department of Biology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.’ https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1002/msb.20145351 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend focuses on a remarkably short article by an extraordinary man about how metabolic pathways evolved. These intricate, far from equilibrium reactions are laced together in highly improbable ways, exquisitely controlled, and perform in unison in ways we simply do not understand. View in LinkedIn

The fractal world backlit by radiant sunlight. View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION. “An international team of researchers has caused molecule made up of up to 2,000 atoms to occupy two places at the same time.” https://lnkd.in/d2WbhJz View in LinkedIn

THE PREMISE. “The ascription of entropy to a black hole thus permits a generalization of the traditional Second Law, as Bekenstein asserts: “The common entropy in the black-hole exterior plus the black-hole entropy never decreases.” https://lnkd.in/dHGT8xw View in LinkedIn