Crawling Chemicals Act Like They Are Alive
The article, “Crawling Chemicals Act Like They Are Alive” by Kathryn Gempf, discussed a Japanese teams creation of ‘globules’, which are a combination of multiple chemicals and also known as vesicles, that acted as if they were alive by showing some of the human life characteristics. The team believes that these globules may contain clues to the origin of simple cells, however no new information about the origin of cells has been extracted from this study yet. The globules moved around freely, but required food to provide them their energy, otherwise they would collapse and shrink. Since they ate (mostly other chemicals or smaller globules), they also would excrete excess chemicals, which was another intriguing life-like characteristic. This