Luisi, P. L.
La Vida Emergente
Tusquets; Tra edition (May 1, 2010), ISBN-10: 8483832046, ISBN-13: 978-8483832042
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Stano, P.; Murtas, G.; Luisi, P. L.
Semi-Synthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives.
In:“Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter”, Rasmussen, S.; Bedau, M. A.; Chen, L.; Deamer, D.; Krakauer, D. C.; Packard, N. H.; Stadler, P. F. (Eds.), MIT Press, 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts; pp. 39-70.
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La Rocca, G.; Minervini, G.; Evangelista, G.; Luisi, P. L.; Polticelli, F.
Porting Biological Applications in Grid: An Experience within the EUChinaGRID Framework.
In: Grid Computing (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Grid Computintg (ISGC 2007: Acad Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan), S. C. Lin (Ed.), Springer US, New York, 2009; pp. 67-71.

Luisi, P. L., with Houshmand Z.
Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality
Columbia University Press: 2008
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Stano P.
Self-reproduction of vesicles and other compartments: a review.
In CRC Handbook of Surface and Colloid Chemistry – Third Edition – 2009, K. S. Birdi (ed.) CRC PRESS, Taylor and Francis Group LLC, Boca Raton, FL, USA; pp. 681-701.

Bich, L.; Damiano, L.
Order in the nothing: Autopoiesis and the Organizational Characterization of the Living
In: Physics of Emergence and Organization, I. Licata, A. Sakaji (ed.), World Scientific Publishing Company, 2008, pp. 339-370.

Stano, P., Luisi, P. L.
Precellular Evolution: Vesicles and Protocells.
In: Prebiotic Evolution and Astrobiology. J.T. Wong and A. Lazcano (eds.), Landes Bioscience 2008
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Luisi, P. L.
Chemical Aspects of Synthetic Biology
In: Origin of Life: Chemical Approach, P. Herdewijn, M. V. Kisakürek (Eds.), VHCA: Zurich and Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA, Weinheim, 2008.
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Stano, P.; Luisi, P. L.
Self-reproduction of micelles, reverse micelles and vesicles. Compartments disclose a general transformation pattern.
In: Advances on Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, A. Leitmannova Liu (Ed.)., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008, pp. 221-263.

Stano, P.; Ferri, F.; Luisi, P. L.
From the minimal genome to the minimal cell: theoretical and experimental investigations.
In “Life as we know it (Series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology; vol. 10)”, ed. J. Seckbach, Springer, Berlin, 2006, pp. 181-198.

Walde, P.
Preparation of Vesicles (Liposomes)
ASP Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2003), Ed. H. S. Nalwa, Vol. 9, 43-79.

P.L. Luisi
Some open questions about the origin of life
In: Fundamentals of Life, Elsevier Paris, ISBN 2-84299-303-9, 287-301, 2002

T. Oberholzer
Nucleic Acid-Dependent Enzymatic Reactions in Conventional Liposomes and Giant Vesicles
In: CRC Handbook of Surface and Colloid Chemistry, K. S. Birdi (ed.), ISBN 0849310792, August 2002, pp 611-622

P.L. Luisi, T. Oberholzer
Origin of life on Earth: Molecular Biology in Liposomes as an Approach to the Minimal Cell
In: The Bridge between the Big Bang and Biology, F. Giovanelli (ed.), CNR Pres., 345-355 2001