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A template for artificial life

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Selection rules play an important role in Darwinian evolution. Now, it has been shown that selective templation enables the purification of oligomer libraries in a coacervate model, and that the oligomer library can reversibly affect the coacervates’ fusion behaviour.

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Fig. 1: A template-controlled dynamic combinatorial library (DCL) operating under out-of-equilibrium conditions.

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