Re: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize
David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Tue, 4 May 1999 17:45:43 -0400
>In a message dated 5/3/99 7:08:01 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>alexanian@uncwil.edu writes:
>
>> My point is that it hasn't been accomplished. The transition from dead
>> matter to living matter is a tough one.
>
>In what way are Fox's protocells not alive?
The absence of information transmission seems to be the most important
problem. However, defining what is or is not alive when dealing with such
things will be difficult.
David C.