{"id":187238,"date":"2024-04-12T04:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/first-fractal-molecule-in-nature-recently-discovered-by-accident"},"modified":"2024-04-12T04:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:23:32","slug":"first-fractal-molecule-in-nature-recently-discovered-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/first-fractal-molecule-in-nature-recently-discovered-by-accident","title":{"rendered":"First fractal molecule in nature recently discovered by accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-fractal-molecule-in-nature-recently-discovered-by-accident.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has stumbled upon a remarkable discovery \u2014 the first regular <a href=\"https:\/\/cff2.earth.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11134926\/fractal-molecule_first-discovered-in-nature_credit-Max-Planck-Institut-Hochberg_1m.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">molecular fractal<\/a> in nature.<\/p>\n<p>This fascinating finding, led by groups from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Max Planck Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-marburg.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philipps University<\/a> in Marburg, Germany, has unveiled a microbial enzyme that spontaneously assembles into a pattern known as the Sierpinski triangle.<\/p>\n<p>The enzyme, identified as citrate synthase from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/cyanobacteria-may-shed-new-light-on-the-history-of-life-on-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cyanobacterium<\/a>, was discovered by chance. \u201cWe stumbled on this structure completely by accident and almost couldn\u2019t believe what we saw when we first took images of it using an electron microscope,\u201d says Franziska Sendker, the study\u2019s first author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has stumbled upon a remarkable discovery \u2014 the first regular molecular fractal in nature. This fascinating finding, led by groups from the Max Planck Institute and the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, has unveiled a microbial enzyme that spontaneously assembles into a pattern known as the Sierpinski triangle. The enzyme, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187238","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}