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Mammalian Cell Division in 3D Matrices via Quantitative Confocal Reflection Microscopy
Published on: November 29, 2017
Artificial cell division
Daniel Mange1, André Stauffer, Enrico Petraglio
1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Logic Systems Laboratory, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. daniel.mange@epfl.ch
Abstract:
After a survey of the theory and some realizations of self-replicating machines, this paper presents a novel self-replicating loop endowed with universal construction and computation properties. Based on the hardware implementation of the so-called Tom Thumb algorithm, the design of this loop leads to a new kind of cellular automaton made of a processing and a control units. The self-replication of the Swiss flag serves as an artificial cell division example of the loop which, according to autopoietic evaluation criteria, corresponds to a cell showing the phenomenology of a living system.
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