{"id":184470,"date":"2024-03-09T00:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/we-may-finally-know-how-the-first-cells-on-earth-formed"},"modified":"2024-03-09T00:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:23:25","slug":"we-may-finally-know-how-the-first-cells-on-earth-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/we-may-finally-know-how-the-first-cells-on-earth-formed","title":{"rendered":"We May Finally Know How The First Cells on Earth Formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSg0-onjHW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story of how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/were-scientists-wrong-about-the-origin-of-life-on-earth\">life started<\/a> on Earth is one that scientists are eager to learn. Researchers may have uncovered an important detail in the plot of chapter one: an explanation of how bubbles of fat came to form the membranes of the very first cells.<\/p>\n<p>A key part of the new findings, made by a team from The Scripps Research Institute in California, is that a chemical process called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phosphorylation\">phosphorylation<\/a> may have happened earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>This process adds groups of atoms that include phosphorus to a molecule, bringing extra functions with it \u2013 functions that can turn spherical collections of fats called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protocell\">protocells<\/a> into more advanced versions of themselves, able to be more versatile, stable, and chemically active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of how life started on Earth is one that scientists are eager to learn. Researchers may have uncovered an important detail in the plot of chapter one: an explanation of how bubbles of fat came to form the membranes of the very first cells. A key part of the new findings, made by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184470","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}