{"id":218209,"date":"2025-07-18T06:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/on-the-origins-of-life-metabolic-activity-successfully-incorporated-into-synthetic-cell-membranes"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:28:31","slug":"on-the-origins-of-life-metabolic-activity-successfully-incorporated-into-synthetic-cell-membranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/on-the-origins-of-life-metabolic-activity-successfully-incorporated-into-synthetic-cell-membranes","title":{"rendered":"On the origins of life: Metabolic activity successfully incorporated into synthetic cell membranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-the-origins-of-life-metabolic-activity-successfully-incorporated-into-synthetic-cell-membranes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How this happened is one of humankind\u2019s greatest mysteries. Today, scientists work to develop synthetic cells that mimic living cells, hoping to uncover clues that will help answer the question: how did life on Earth begin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How this happened is one of humankind\u2019s greatest mysteries. Today, scientists work to develop synthetic cells that mimic living cells, hoping to uncover clues that will help answer the question: how did life on Earth begin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218209","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=218209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}