| POLYMERS Vol.63 No.6 |
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COVER STORY Synthesizing “Life” with Macromolecules |
| Recently, a new scientific field named “synthetic biology” is emerging, which is aiming at a de-novo design of biological systems in test tube from natural macromolecules by extracting necessary components. In this new field, life systems are re-designed purposefully and are synthesized by re-programming their single components as if we design new molecules and chemically synthesize them. The new concept in synthetic biology is now merging naturally occurring macromolecules and artificial ones to create “artificial life forms” as a new system. Someday, development of this field may give us some answers for compelling questions towards the choice of biomolecules, such as why genetic alphabets are converged to only four bases, and why proteins are composed of twenty amino acids. In this special issue, recent progress in this new field is introduced by focusing on the design of artificial cells and model systems of life phenomena. Editors: ASANUMA, TAI, NISHIHARA, and Supporter IYODA |
| Digest for English Readers | 370
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| Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ | 374
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| Commentary |
| Exploring the Puzzle of Life Via the Collaboration Between Life and Physical Sciences | Kenichi YOSHIKAWA | 375
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| COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews |
| Design and Construction of an Artificial Cell | Norikazu ICHIHASHI, Tetsuya YOMO | 376
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| Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System | Hideaki MATSUBAYASHI, Takuya UEDA | 379 |
| Chemical Construction of Artificial-Cell | Tadashi SUGAWARA, Kentaro SUZUKI | 382 |
| PolyMANGA | 385 |
| COVER STORY: Topics and Products |
| Synthetic RNA Technologies to Control molecular Information and Structure | Hirohide SAITO | 386 |
| Self-Organization in Cell-Scale Nonequilibrium Systems: Spontaneous Motions and Oscillatory Reactions | Masahiro TAKINOUE | 388 |
| In vitro Microvasculature Models: Designing Living Tissue Structures | Yukiko T. MATSUNAGA | 390 |
| Why 20 Amino Acids? | Kazuaki AMIKURA, Daisuke KIGA | 392 |
| Genetic Alphabet Expansion and its Application | Ichiro HIRAO, Michiko KIMOTO, Ken-ichiro MATSUNAGA | 394 |
| Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account |
| To Make Own Skill | Sunnam KIM | 396
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| Messages: “Work and Life” |
| Chance for Female Researchers | Hiromichi KUROSU | 397
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| Front-Line Polymer Science |
| Ultrasmall Metal Clusters with Unusual Structures and Properties | Katsuaki KONISHI | 398
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| From My Bookshelf | Masayoshi WATANABE / Masaya MITSUISHI | 403 |
| Messages from SPSJ | 406 |
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