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SYNTHETIC ENZYMES. "So long as you provide the building blocks and the starter seed, it goes forever...It is immortalized molecular information." https://www.wired.com/2009/01/replicatingrna/ View in LinkedIn

TOO SIMPLE. "The crystals used in the study simply copied information verbatim from layer to layer as they grew, which in itself is insufficient to kick-start a Darwinian evolutionary process." https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR ECOSYSTEMS. "Chemists have shown that a group of synthetic enzymes replicated, competed and evolved much like a natural ecosystem, but without life or cells." https://lnkd.in/dwfMZfe View in LinkedIn

TYPES OF COPIABLE INFORMATION. "Our theoretical work suggests that not just linear sequences but also patterns in two dimensions, similar to wallpaper patterns that repeat every so often, could also be replicated," https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

"MINIMAL SELF-REPLICATING SYSTEMS typically consist of three components: a product molecule, and two substrate molecules that become joined to form another product molecule. An important characteristic of self-replicating systems is the ability of the product to catalyze the formation of additional product, resulting in autocatalytic behavior." https://lnkd.in/dZUKQUR View in LinkedIn

RANGE OF INFORMATION. "Having shown that information can be made to chemically self-replicate...the question becomes, what kinds of messages can be copied in this way?" https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR SPECIATION. "We have been able to monitor in real time and at a molecular level the diversification of self-replicating molecules into two distinct sets that compete for two different building blocks (‘food’) and so capture an important aspect of the process by which species may arise." https://lnkd.in/dfhRgv9 View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE DRIVERS. "Instead, the researchers relied only on simple kinds of attachments—molecular binding and unbinding reactions that they designed—and mechanical forces." https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

HIGH FIDELITY CHEMICAL INFORMATION. "Their new research found that it is possible to design a mechanism for copying chemical information very accurately without relying on biological enzymes to assemble and separate sequence copies." https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

CRYSTAL ADAPTATION. "DNA tile crystals can be programmed to process information during growth, allowing them to adapt to their environment. Our findings could even form the basis of novel molecular technologies for making complex self-replicating nanoscale objects." https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn