It’s not exactly known when in the history of life that cells went from being not alive, to alive. But despite not being alive, even early cells were able to replicate and divide, assuming the ...

New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that resident artificial cells abandon their protocell hosts by displaying antagonistic behaviour on receiving a chemical signal. The work opens new ...

Image: A view of a model protocell with a fatty acid membrane and chemically formed strands of DNA. More images. A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive ...

Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from chemical signals, an important step for the development of new drug-delivery systems that could target specific locations in the body. By ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol have demonstrated that resident artificial cells leave their protocell hosts when triggered by a chemical signal that causes them to behave antagonistically.

A new drug being developed by scientists in New Mexico could change the way doctors fight cancer.Scientists hope a revolutionary new drug called protocells could make chemotherapy more effective, ...

A new paper from the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Houston Chemical Engineering Department and Chicago Center for the Origins of Life suggests rainwater could have ...

Researchers have shown that resident artificial cells abandon their protocell hosts by displaying antagonistic behavior on receiving a chemical signal. Researchers at the University of Bristol have ...