{"id":161261,"date":"2023-03-29T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-energy-generating-synthetic-organelles-could-sustain-artificial-cells-a-powerhouse-of-the-future"},"modified":"2023-03-29T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:26:06","slug":"how-energy-generating-synthetic-organelles-could-sustain-artificial-cells-a-powerhouse-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-energy-generating-synthetic-organelles-could-sustain-artificial-cells-a-powerhouse-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"How energy-generating synthetic organelles could sustain artificial cells \u2014 a powerhouse of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-energy-generating-synthetic-organelles-could-sustain-artificial-cells-a-powerhouse-of-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Energy production in nature is the responsibility of mitochondria and chloroplasts, and is crucial for fabricating sustainable, synthetic cells in the lab. Mitochondria are \u201cthe powerhouses of the cell,\u201d but are also one of the most complex intracellular components to replicate artificially.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Biophysics Reviews<\/em>, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Sogang University in South Korea and the Harbin Institute of Technology in China identified the most promising advancements and greatest challenges of artificial mitochondria and chloroplasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf scientists can create artificial mitochondria and chloroplasts, we could potentially develop synthetic cells that can generate energy and synthesize molecules autonomously. This would pave the way for the creation of entirely new organisms or biomaterials,\u201d author Kwanwoo Shin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy production in nature is the responsibility of mitochondria and chloroplasts, and is crucial for fabricating sustainable, synthetic cells in the lab. Mitochondria are \u201cthe powerhouses of the cell,\u201d but are also one of the most complex intracellular components to replicate artificially. In Biophysics Reviews, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Sogang University in South Korea [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161261","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}