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“I thought there couldn’t be anything as complicated as the universe, until I started reading about the cell”, wrote the astrophysicist Eric de Silva.
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Carrà, S. (2018). Imitation of Life: The Cell in a Silicon Chip. In: Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95459-2_8
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