Death as emergent self-organization - Monte Carlo simulations of biological ageing, D. Stauffer; the regulation of T lymphocyte cell cycle progression, K.A. Smith; the T cells quantal decision to replicate DNA in a superconductive Lihe model, L. Matsson; punctuated equilibria and self-organized criticality, P. Bak; complex dynamics and cooperative phenomena in RNA evolution, P. Schuster; membranes and polymers, R. Lipowsky; protein dynamics new results, H. Frauenfelder; proton percolation, glassy relaxation and biological function in hydrated golbular proteins, G. Careri; energy landscapes for protein folding - understanding the role of specific intermolecular forces, P. Wolynes; transition in evolutionary dynamics, L. Peliti; autonomous agents and worlds they mutually create, S. Kauffman; DNA-liquid binding - cooperative effects, B. Norden; coherent excitations in one-and two-dimensional molecular structures, P.L. Christiansen. (Part contents)