{"id":165352,"date":"2023-06-08T05:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/synthetic-species-created-without-biochemistry-operate-according-to-darwinian-evolutionary-principles"},"modified":"2023-06-08T05:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:22:46","slug":"synthetic-species-created-without-biochemistry-operate-according-to-darwinian-evolutionary-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/synthetic-species-created-without-biochemistry-operate-according-to-darwinian-evolutionary-principles","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic species created without biochemistry operate according to Darwinian evolutionary principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-species-created-without-biochemistry-operate-according-to-darwinian-evolutionary-principles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine the possibility of life forms on other planets that don\u2019t resemble any on Earth. What might they look like, and why would they be so different?<\/p>\n<p>Juan P\u00e9rez-Mercader says it may be possible and the answer may be that they developed from a different type of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemistry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemistry<\/a>. For more than 10 years, the senior research fellow in the Department of Earth &amp; Planetary Sciences and the Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard has studied how to produce synthetic living systems\u2014without relying on biochemistry, or the chemistry that has enabled life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been trying to build a non-biochemical system, which unaided is capable of executing the essential properties common to all natural living systems,\u201d P\u00e9rez-Mercader explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the possibility of life forms on other planets that don\u2019t resemble any on Earth. What might they look like, and why would they be so different? Juan P\u00e9rez-Mercader says it may be possible and the answer may be that they developed from a different type of chemistry. For more than 10 years, the senior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165352","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}