{"id":227401,"date":"2025-12-18T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nanomotors-drive-protein-network-formation-inside-artificial-cells"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:12:30","slug":"nanomotors-drive-protein-network-formation-inside-artificial-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nanomotors-drive-protein-network-formation-inside-artificial-cells","title":{"rendered":"Nanomotors drive protein network formation inside artificial cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanomotors-drive-protein-network-formation-inside-artificial-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that direction:<\/p>\n<p>They have equipped artificial cells with tiny motors inspired by an unusual movement mechanism found in nature\u2014specifically from the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The result: artificial cells that can form internal networks of protein filaments\u2014a function otherwise unique to living cells.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c12624\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in ACS Nano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that direction: They have equipped artificial cells with tiny motors inspired by an unusual movement mechanism found in nature\u2014specifically from the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The result: artificial cells that can form internal networks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227401","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}