Protocell networks assembled by artificial cell-like compartments have been developed for the expansion of cell-mimicking functionalities, such as signal processing, protein expression, morphological ...

Understanding the fundamentals of designing polyelectrolyte coatings, which can be seen as a bio-inspired approach due to chemical sequences that are analogous to proteins at a molecular level, ...

One of the most important questions in science is how life began on Earth. One theory is that wet-dry cycling on the early Earth—whether through rainy/dry periods, or through phenomena such as geysers ...

Membraneless compartments -- models for a potential step in the early evolution of cells -- have been shown to persist or form, disappear, and reform in predictable ways through multiple cycles of ...

Membraneless protocells -- called complex coacervates -- can bring together molecules of RNA allowing the RNAs to perform certain reactions, an important step in the origin of life on Earth. The Image ...

Is there really life on Mars? Was there once cellular material on the red planet? Scientists have been studying these questions for a long time, and now they have some new information that may give ...

One of the most important questions in science is how life began on Earth. One theory is that wet-dry cycling on the early Earth - whether through rainy/dry periods, or through phenomena such as ...