RE: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Wed, 5 May 1999 08:38:51 -0700

Perhaps it would be helpful if one could define "alive" ?

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Subject: Re: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize

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?

Kevin L. O'Brien