{"id":218828,"date":"2025-07-27T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-create-an-artificial-cell-capable-of-navigating-its-environment-using-chemistry-alone"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:03:19","slug":"scientists-create-an-artificial-cell-capable-of-navigating-its-environment-using-chemistry-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-create-an-artificial-cell-capable-of-navigating-its-environment-using-chemistry-alone","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create an artificial cell capable of navigating its environment using chemistry alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-an-artificial-cell-capable-of-navigating-its-environment-using-chemistry-alone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world\u2019s simplest artificial cell capable of chemical navigation, migrating toward specific substances like living cells do.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adx9364\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, demonstrates how microscopic bubbles can be programmed to follow chemical trails. The study describes the development of a \u201cminimal cell\u201d in the form of a lipid <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vesicle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vesicle<\/a> encapsulating enzymes that can propel itself through chemotaxis.<\/p>\n<p>Cellular transport is a vital aspect of many biological processes and a key milestone in evolution. Among all types of movement, chemotaxis is an essential strategy used by many living systems to move towards beneficial signals, such as nutrients, or away from harmful ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world\u2019s simplest artificial cell capable of chemical navigation, migrating toward specific substances like living cells do. This breakthrough, published in Science Advances, demonstrates how microscopic bubbles can be programmed to follow chemical trails. The study describes the development of a \u201cminimal cell\u201d in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,19,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218828","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}