{"id":212148,"date":"2025-04-23T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/asymmetric-molecular-interactions-may-hold-the-secret-to-living-matter"},"modified":"2025-04-23T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:17:17","slug":"asymmetric-molecular-interactions-may-hold-the-secret-to-living-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/asymmetric-molecular-interactions-may-hold-the-secret-to-living-matter","title":{"rendered":"Asymmetric molecular interactions may hold the secret to living matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asymmetric-molecular-interactions-may-hold-the-secret-to-living-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asymmetric interactions between molecules may serve as a stabilizing factor for biological systems. A new model by researchers in the Department of Living Matter Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) reveals the regulatory role of non-reciprocity.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists aim to understand the physical principles based on which particles and molecules are able to form living beings, and eventually, organisms. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.148301\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Most organizations, including companies, societies, or nations, function best when each member carries out their assigned role. Moreover, this efficiency often relies on spatial organization, which arose due to rules or emerged naturally via learning and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/self-organization\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">self-organization<\/a>. At the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microscopic+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscopic level<\/a>, cells operate in a similar way, with different components handling <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/specific+tasks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">specific tasks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asymmetric interactions between molecules may serve as a stabilizing factor for biological systems. A new model by researchers in the Department of Living Matter Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) reveals the regulatory role of non-reciprocity. The scientists aim to understand the physical principles based on which particles and molecules [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212148","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=212148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}