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Protocells

Non-living predators

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Attempts to build lifelike synthetic protocells must consider extracellular influences in order to accurately reflect the behaviours and characteristics of real ecosystems. Now, this concept has been demonstrated by the synthesis of a community of protocells in which one cell type preys upon another.

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Figure 1: Predator–prey interactions within a population of protocells.

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  1. Sheref S. Mansy is at the Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, via Sommarive 9, 38123 Povo TN, Italy,

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