A “self-replicator” is usually understood to be an object of definite form that promotes the
conversion of materials in its environment into a nearly identical copy of itself. The challenge …

Self‐replication plays a central role in the origin of life and in strategies to synthesize life de
novo. Studies on self‐replication have focused mostly on isolated systems, while the …

Self-replication, an important concept abstracted from reproduction, the key feature of life,
remains vague in definition and lacking in clear interpretation in terms of its chemical …

Self-replication is one of the major principles without life could not exist. The emergence of
self-replicating systems on the early earth is generally believed to have taken place before …

It's not known how life's essential properties of replication, metabolism and
compartmentalization were first integrated. Two recent articles now shed light on how …

The use of self-complementary structures in replication experiments is discussed, and a
second generation of self-replicating molecules is introduced. Key design elements of the …

It is generally believed that the earliest progenitor of modern life was a set of chemical
shapes or rea: tions that could reproduce itself. Although it is convenient to hypodlesize that …

Template-dependent replication at the molecular level is the basis of reproduction in nature.
A detailed understanding of the peculiarities of the chemical reaction kinetics associated …