Synthesizing life

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Welcome Home, Systems Chemists! (2010, background): “Clearly, the early focus of Systems Chemistry was seen in protocell research [3,4], a field that had gained momentum after the announcement of Szostak, Bartel and Luisi to search for a minimal form of life by a synthetic approach [5].”
Origins of building blocks of life: A review (2017, neutral): “It is noteworthy, however, that osmotically swollen vesicles tend to form stable spheres, which are difficult to divide (Szostak et al., 2001; Blain and Szostak, 2014).”
The eightfold path to non-enzymatic RNA replication (2012, background): “Although early discussions of the RNA World neglected the cellular nature of life, it is clear that the emergence of Darwinian evolution required spatial localization, so that potentially useful RNAs could accrue an advantage for themselves [7,8].”
The Role of Atmospheric Aerosols in the Origin Of Life (2002, background): “Szostak et al. (2001) consider a container as an essential starting point in their contemplated laboratory production of synthetic life.”
Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America, Salt Lake City, October 18, 2005: Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules (2006, methodology): “These experiments are prelude to efforts to make the fi rst synthetic life-form (Bachmann et al. 1992; Szostak et al. 2001).”