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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 ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 167 | with audio podcast

Synthetic Capsules Made of Natural Building Blocks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The basis of all life forms are vesicles: membrane-enclosed, liquid-filled “bubbles” made of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Cells, which are separated from the surrounding medium by their cell membrane, ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0