News tagged with protocells
Using artificial, cell-like 'honey pots' to entrap deadly viruses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of deadly human ...
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Mar 02, 2011 |
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Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide
(PhysOrg.com) -- Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with 'living' materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Biochemist David Deamer explores how life began in new book, 'First Life'
David Deamer began studying the origin of life in the early 1980s, and his research over the past 30 years has had a major influence on scientific understanding of how life on Earth got started. In his new book, First Life ...
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Boosting medicine with nanotechnology to destroy cancers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy ...
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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Clay-armored bubbles may have formed first protocells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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What came first in the origin of life? A study contradicts the 'metabolism first' hypothesis
A research published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences rejects the theory that the origin of life stems from a system of self-catalytic molecules capable of experiencing Darwinian evolution without the need o ...
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Synthetic Cells Shed Biological Insights While Delivering Battery Power
(PhysOrg.com) -- Trying to understand the complex workings of a biological cell by teasing out the function of every molecule within it is a daunting task. But by making synthetic cells that include just a ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Synthetic biology yields clues to evolution and the origin of life
Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells
A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.
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Jun 05, 2008 |
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Simple membranes could have allowed nutrients to pass into primitive cells
When the first cells developed, how could they bring molecules from the environment into their living interior without the specialized structures found on the modern cell membrane? A research team from Massachusetts General ...
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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Sensing light with 'liquid Lego'
Scientists at Oxford University and Duke University in the United States have used tiny water droplets to build a unique microscopic light sensor.
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Methane-Belching Bugs Inspire a New Theory of the Origin of Life on Earth
Two laboratories at Penn State set out to show how an obscure undersea microbe metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar. What they found was not merely a previously unknown biochemical process -- their discovery ...
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May 12, 2006 |
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