{"id":153102,"date":"2022-12-18T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/molecular-shape-shifting-new-theory-on-autonomous-remodeling-of-structures"},"modified":"2022-12-18T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:22:53","slug":"molecular-shape-shifting-new-theory-on-autonomous-remodeling-of-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/molecular-shape-shifting-new-theory-on-autonomous-remodeling-of-structures","title":{"rendered":"Molecular shape-shifting: New theory on autonomous remodeling of structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-shape-shifting-new-theory-on-autonomous-remodeling-of-structures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists Saeed Osat and Ramin Golestanian from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) revealed this mechanism which may be used to actively manipulate molecular organization. A seed of the novel desired configuration is sufficient to trigger reorganization.<\/p>\n<p>This principle can be applied on to biological <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/building\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">building<\/a> blocks which are constantly recycled to form new structures in living systems.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of remodeling is familiar to most people: those who have ever played with Lego bricks know that many combinations and structures possible from the same components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists Saeed Osat and Ramin Golestanian from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) revealed this mechanism which may be used to actively manipulate molecular organization. A seed of the novel desired configuration is sufficient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153102","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}