{"id":115170,"date":"2020-10-27T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/study-shows-how-tiny-compartments-could-have-preceded-cells"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:23:13","slug":"study-shows-how-tiny-compartments-could-have-preceded-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/study-shows-how-tiny-compartments-could-have-preceded-cells","title":{"rendered":"Study shows how tiny compartments could have preceded cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-how-tiny-compartments-could-have-preceded-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most important questions in science is how life began on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>One theory is that wet-dry cycling on the early Earth\u2014whether through rainy\/dry periods, or through phenomena such as geysers\u2014encouraged molecular complexity. The hydration\/rehydration cycle is thought to have created conditions that allowed membraneless compartments called complex coacervates to act as homes for chemicals to combine to create life.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, scientists in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago studied these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polymer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polymer<\/a> compartments as they undergo phase changes to understand just what happens inside them during wet-dry cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important questions in science is how life began on Earth. One theory is that wet-dry cycling on the early Earth\u2014whether through rainy\/dry periods, or through phenomena such as geysers\u2014encouraged molecular complexity. The hydration\/rehydration cycle is thought to have created conditions that allowed membraneless compartments called complex coacervates to act as homes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}