{"id":215061,"date":"2025-05-30T06:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/artificial-cell-like-structures-mimic-self-reproduction-and-release-polymeric-spores"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:11:02","slug":"artificial-cell-like-structures-mimic-self-reproduction-and-release-polymeric-spores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/artificial-cell-like-structures-mimic-self-reproduction-and-release-polymeric-spores","title":{"rendered":"Artificial cell-like structures mimic self-reproduction and release polymeric spores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-cell-like-structures-mimic-self-reproduction-and-release-polymeric-spores.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by complex biochemistry. But can self-reproduction exist in a biochemistry-free environment?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2412514122#sec-2\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> by researchers from Harvard University demonstrated that the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers designed a non-biochemical system in which synthetic cell-like structures form and self-reproduce by ejecting polymeric spores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by complex biochemistry. But can self-reproduction exist in a biochemistry-free environment? A study by researchers from Harvard University demonstrated that the answer is yes. The researchers designed a non-biochemical system in which synthetic cell-like structures form and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215061","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}