Alan Kay speaks about this in his 1997 OOPSLA keynote at about this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0&t=1960s
this provides a good prompt for appreciation of cellular events at intermolecular scale.
generally, the physics, and physical chemistry of colloids, and colloidal systems are basic to such pursuit.
Alan Kay speaks about this in his 1997 OOPSLA keynote at about this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0&t=1960s