Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...
New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, ...
It’s not exactly known when in the history of life that cells went from being not alive, to alive. But despite not being alive, even early cells were able to replicate and divide, assuming the ...
Researchers have shown that resident artificial cells abandon their protocell hosts by displaying antagonistic behavior on receiving a chemical signal. Researchers at the University of Bristol have ...
Scientists at the University of Bristol have demonstrated that resident artificial cells leave their protocell hosts when triggered by a chemical signal that causes them to behave antagonistically.
Image: A view of a model protocell with a fatty acid membrane and chemically formed strands of DNA. More images. A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive ...
Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from chemical signals, an important step for the development of new drug-delivery systems that could target specific locations in the body. By ...
A new drug being developed by scientists in New Mexico could change the way doctors fight cancer.Scientists hope a revolutionary new drug called protocells could make chemotherapy more effective, ...
Our built environment doesn’t have to be static. With the right synthetic biology, it can respond automatically to changes in temperature or moisture level, and even react to natural disasters, ...
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