Minimal Life: Drawing the line
On the afternoon of the second day of NSF’s Minimal Life workshop, Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico provided a much-needed synthesis. Read more
On the afternoon of the second day of NSF’s Minimal Life workshop, Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico provided a much-needed synthesis. Read more
On the first day’s afternoon at the NSF workshop on “minimal life”, discussants took an engineering approach to understanding the simplest forms of life. Here, engineers are sort of the “cheaters” of the group — unlike the other scientists, they get to understand the minimum required for life by looking at things that are simpler than what naturally occur in nature. Read more
This week at the National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlingon, Virginia, a small group of researchers got together for a workshop about “minimality” in biology. Participants considered the teeniest living cells, the shortest genomes, the simplest engineered systems — basically asking, how low can you go and still have “life”? Read more