{"id":190901,"date":"2024-06-09T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/surface-bubbles-could-have-evolved-into-earths-first-cells"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:23:14","slug":"surface-bubbles-could-have-evolved-into-earths-first-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/surface-bubbles-could-have-evolved-into-earths-first-cells","title":{"rendered":"Surface Bubbles Could Have Evolved into Earth\u2019s First Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surface-bubbles-could-have-evolved-into-earths-first-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Inside Science) \u2013 Primitive \u201cprotocells\u201d like those that evolved into the first living cells can form in bubbles on mineral surfaces that were plentiful on the early Earth, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers created artificial protocells that they believe may be similar to the protocells that may have formed on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago. The artificial protocells can absorb other small molecules by forming a barrier membrane around them \u2014 behavior that is strikingly like that of modern living cells when they absorb cellular fuel and other essential materials while blocking off harmful substances.<\/p>\n<p>And the artificial protocells also exhibit a primitive form of \u201cdivision,\u201d where the outer membrane of a protocell ruptures and leaves behind several \u201cdaughter\u201d protocells with the same capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Inside Science) \u2013 Primitive \u201cprotocells\u201d like those that evolved into the first living cells can form in bubbles on mineral surfaces that were plentiful on the early Earth, according to new research. The researchers created artificial protocells that they believe may be similar to the protocells that may have formed on Earth about 3.8 billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190901","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=190901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}