Tissue-engineered skeletal muscle is urgently required to treat a wide array of devastating
congenital and acquired conditions. Selection of the appropriate cell type requires …

We review lessons learned about evolutionary transitions from a bottom-up construction of
minimal life. We use a particular systemic protocell design process as a starting point for …

Several kinds of synchronization of fractional-order chaotic complex systems are
challenging research topics of current interest since they appear in many applications in …

The distributed-order hyperchaotic unforced and forced complex van der Pol oscillators with
complex parameter are introduced and investigated in this paper. The basic dynamical …

In previous works we have explored the dynamics of chemically reacting proto-cellular
systems, under different experimental conditions and kinetic parameters, by means of our …

Experiments on steady-state bacterial cultures have uncovered several quantitative
regularities at the system level. These include, first, the exponential growth of cell size with …

It took quite a long time to complete this book. More than 20 years had elapsed since I wrote
my last volume as an author, not just as an editor. And I felt it important to find again the …

We describe a method to identify relevant subsets of variables, useful to understand the
organization of a dynamical system. The variables belonging to a relevant subset should …

Autocatalytic sets are self-sustaining and collectively catalytic chemical reaction networks
which are believed to have played an important role in the origin of life. Simulation studies …

Artificial life is largely concerned with systems that exhibit different emergent phenomena;
yet, the identification of emergent structures is frequently a difficult challenge. In this paper …