{"id":221354,"date":"2025-09-03T04:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/self-assembling-magnetic-microparticles-mimic-biological-error-correction"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:24:06","slug":"self-assembling-magnetic-microparticles-mimic-biological-error-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/self-assembling-magnetic-microparticles-mimic-biological-error-correction","title":{"rendered":"Self-assembling magnetic microparticles mimic biological error correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-assembling-magnetic-microparticles-mimic-biological-error-correction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everybody makes mistakes. Biology is no different. However, living organisms have certain error-correction mechanisms that enable their biomolecules to assemble and function despite the defective slough that is a natural byproduct of the process.<\/p>\n<p>A Cornell-led collaboration has developed microscale <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic particles<\/a> that can mimic the ability of biological materials such as proteins and nucleic acids to self-assemble into complex structures, while also selectively reducing the parasitic waste that would otherwise clog up production.<\/p>\n<p>This magnetic assembly platform could one day usher in a new class of self-building biomimetic devices and microscale machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody makes mistakes. Biology is no different. However, living organisms have certain error-correction mechanisms that enable their biomolecules to assemble and function despite the defective slough that is a natural byproduct of the process. A Cornell-led collaboration has developed microscale magnetic particles that can mimic the ability of biological materials such as proteins and nucleic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221354","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\/221354","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=221354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}