Posted: Feb 23, 2011 4:50 pm
OK, he hasn't actually demonstrated replication yet, but he thinks he might be able to:
And, GrahamH, you are obviously right that the droplets, having divided, would need to grow back to more or less their old size: we can't have each generation being half the size of its parent.
And the team is working on creating instabilities within the droplets that cause them to self-divide — with subsequent feeding or fusion, that might lead to a primitive replication cycle.
And, GrahamH, you are obviously right that the droplets, having divided, would need to grow back to more or less their old size: we can't have each generation being half the size of its parent.