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UNEXPECTED BOX VIRTUES. "We also relate how asymmetric spaces can be created inside the capsule by using a chiral guest. In contrast to the situation in dilute solution, where rapid exchange of solute partners and free molecular motion average out the steric and magnetic effects of chirality, the long lifetimes of the encounters in the capsules magnify the effects of an asymmetric environment." https://lnkd.in/dHEf56Q View in LinkedIn

"ACQUIRED MEMORIES that could survive the process of head regeneration were demonstrated by measuring a direct display of a conditioned response or a faster learning rate (‘savings’) among worm fragments generated from head and tail pieces of previously trained planarians." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

CONFINED REACTIONS. "Molecules isolated from bulk media in spaces barely large enough to accommodate them and a few neighbors show new phenomena: their activities resemble those of molecules inside biochemical structures--pockets of enzymes, interiors of chaperones, or the inner space of the ribosome--rather than conventional behavior in solution." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19603810 View in LinkedIn

ADVANTAGES OF BOXES. "It is now clear that the behavior of molecules in dilute solution is really quite different from their behavior in capsules." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19603810 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR DECISION-MAKING. "The evolution of behavior. Quantum mechanical and thermal fluctuations in single molecules get incorporated into informational polymers that can then display behavioral chemistry. Natural selection operating on these molecules leads to chemical choice, then to heritable decision making, and ultimately to behaviors ascribed to intelligent organisms." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

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KINETIC TRAPS. "The second process that allows behavioral chemistry is the real possibility that macromolecules end up in kinetic traps during their folding. When the lifetimes of these traps are of the same order of magnitude as the time in which these molecules need to function, then a second type of behavioral expression becomes possible." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

DAISY CHAIN BEHAVIOR. "The molecular paradigm views behavior as composed of discrete units (responses) occurring at moments in time and strung together in chains to make up complex performances. The discrete pieces are held together as a result of association by contiguity." https://lnkd.in/dzst9qf View in LinkedIn

BOXES AND BEHAVIOR. "Clearly, the advent of compartmentalization (protocellular life) would further enhance the establishment of a bounded genotype, thereby firmly entrenching behavior. The key to this first aspect of behavioral chemistry is that the information is physically bondable such that the possible states of the system can be quantized (discrete)." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

SELF-REPLICATING MOLECULES. "The “self” is now clearly defined; however, it can be a single self-replicating molecule or a network of related cooperators. Here we are using the example of RNA as the informational polymer, but the same conclusions were to apply if other polymers, or even inorganic lattices or compositional sets of macromolecules such as lipids, were the ancestral genotypes." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn