{"id":169055,"date":"2023-08-05T04:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/exploring-the-self-organizing-origins-of-life"},"modified":"2023-08-05T04:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:23:35","slug":"exploring-the-self-organizing-origins-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/exploring-the-self-organizing-origins-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the self-organizing origins of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-the-self-organizing-origins-of-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catalytic molecules can form metabolically active clusters by creating and following concentration gradients\u2014this is the result of a new study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS). Their model predicts the self-organization of molecules involved in metabolic pathways, adding a possible new mechanism to the theory of the origin of life.<\/p>\n<p>The results can help to better understand how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a> participating in complex biological networks can form dynamic functional structures, and provide a platform for experiments on the origins of life.<\/p>\n<p>One possible scenario for the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/origin+of+life\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">origin of life<\/a> is the spontaneous organization of interacting molecules into cell-like droplets. These molecular <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/species\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">species<\/a> would form the first self-replicating metabolic cycles, which are ubiquitous in biology and common throughout all organisms. According to this paradigm, the first biomolecules would need to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cluster\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cluster<\/a> together through slow and overall inefficient processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalytic molecules can form metabolically active clusters by creating and following concentration gradients\u2014this is the result of a new study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS). Their model predicts the self-organization of molecules involved in metabolic pathways, adding a possible new mechanism to the theory of the origin of [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169055","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=169055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}