{"id":89980,"date":"2019-04-25T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-lifelike-biomaterial-self-reproduces-and-has-a-metabolism"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:22:20","slug":"new-lifelike-biomaterial-self-reproduces-and-has-a-metabolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-lifelike-biomaterial-self-reproduces-and-has-a-metabolism","title":{"rendered":"New Lifelike Biomaterial Self-Reproduces and Has a Metabolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjoTYoqpf6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? The team basically built molecular devices that \u201cdie\u201d without \u201cfood.\u201d Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics (hey ya, Newton!), that energy eventually dissipates, and the shapes automatically begin to break down, completing an artificial \u201ccircle of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new study took the system one step further: rather than just mimicking synthesis, they completed the circle by coupling the building process with dissipative assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the \u201cassembling units themselves are also autonomously created from scratch,\u201d said Hamada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/04\/24\/new-lifelike-biomaterial-self-reproduces-and-has-a-metabolism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound familiar? The team basically built molecular devices that \u201cdie\u201d without \u201cfood.\u201d Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics (hey ya, Newton!), that energy eventually dissipates, and the shapes automatically begin to break down, completing an artificial \u201ccircle of life.\u201d The new study took the system one step further: rather than just mimicking synthesis, they completed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89980","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}