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Heidelberg researchers introduce a reproducible division mechanism for synthetic vesicles – News-Medical.net
One big challenge for the production of synthetic cells is that they must be able to divide to have offspring. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team from Heidelberg…
One big challenge for the production of synthetic cells is that they must be able to divide to have offspring. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team from Heidelberg has now introduced a reproducible division mechanism for synthetic vesicles. It is based on osmosis and can be controlled by an enzymatic reaction or light.
Organisms cannot simply emerge from inanimate material (“abiogenesis”), cells always come from pre-existing cells. The prospect of synthetic cells newly built from the ground…
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