Top-down, bottom-up; RNA-based, lipid-based; theory, experiment — there are many different ways of investigating what constitutes a ‘minimal cell’. Progress requires finding common themes between them.
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Szathmáry, E. In search of the simplest cell. Nature 433, 469–470 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/433469a
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