Bridging the Gap between Nonliving Matter and Cellular Life (Small 13/2023)

Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter

Assembling non-biological materials (geomaterials) into a proto-organism constitutes a bridge between nonliving and living matter. In this article we present a simple step-by-step route to assemble a proto-organism. Many pictures have been proposed to describe this transition within the origins-of-life and artificial life communities, and more recently alternative pictures have been emerging fr...

Unraveling the secrets of white matter – Bridging the gap between cellular, animal and human imaging studies

The CNS white matter makes up about half of the human brain, and with advances in human imaging it is increasingly becoming clear that changes in the white matter play a major role in shaping human behavior and learning. However, the mechanisms underlying these white matter changes remain poorly understood. Within this special issue of Neuroscience on white matter, recent advances in our knowle...

Cross border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Media

  E-Science is a tool that helps scientists to store, interpret, analyze and make a network of their data, and it can play a critical role in different aspects of the scientific goals and research. This commentary, under the topic of Cross Border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap between Science and Media,[1] attempts to shed light on E-Science with emphasis on three importa...

Bridging the Gap between Application

Group communication protocols have received great attention over the past years. From a practical viewpoint, several middleware systems have implemented the group communication abstraction; from a theoretical viewpoint, a sound theory underlying group communication has been developed and minimal solvability conditions have been identiied. So far, however, group communication protocols have not ...

Bridging the Gap between SAT and CSP