Biological matter as a material

A. Sutton
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Although it is usually obvious whether matter is animate or inanimate, it is far from easy to define life. Here we adopt as a definition the three principles identified by Paul Nurse in his recent book ‘What is life?’ There is a resurgence in the physics of life, in particular the materials science of animate matter and the emergence of complexity. This is a departure from molecular biology to a more holistic approach to understanding living matter as a self-organised complex system comprising energy-consuming, purposeful molecular machines, or agents, working collectively. An ultimate goal of synthetic biology is to create animate matter from inanimate matter. First steps have been taken, but there is still a long way to go.
作为材料的生物物质
虽然物质是有生命的还是无生命的通常是显而易见的,但要给生命下定义却远非易事。这里我们采用保罗·纳斯在他的新书《什么是生活?》中提出的三个原则作为定义。“生命物理学正在复苏,特别是关于有生命物质的材料科学和复杂性的出现。这是一个从分子生物学到更全面的方法来理解生命物质作为一个自组织的复杂系统,包括能量消耗,有目的的分子机器,或代理,共同工作。合成生物学的终极目标是从无生命的物质中创造出有生命的物质。我们已经迈出了第一步,但仍有很长的路要走。
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