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Sunlight exposed sterilised aqueous mixture of some inorganic and organic substances shows photochemical formation of self-sustaining photoautrophic supramolecular assemblies "Jeewanu" reported by Prof. Krishna Bahadur(India).They can multiply by budding, grow from within and show metabolic activities in them.The microscopic and cytochemical investigations of Jeewanu revealed that they have a definite boundary wall and intricate internal structure.They have been analysed for the presence of various biochemicals of biological interest. In the primitive atmosphere possibly photosynergistic collaboration of nonlinear processes at mesoscopic level led to emergence of photoautotrophic supramolecular assemblies similar to "JEEWANU", which might have given rise to earliest living systems on the earth and elsewhere.The investigations concerning photochemical formation of such biomimetic systems will open up new vistas in various areas of frontiers of life sciences and synthetic biology research.
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Dr Vinod Kumar Gupta, M.Sc., D. Phil and Dr Rajesh Kumar Rai M.Sc. Ph.D.* working with Department of Zoology, C.M. Dubey Post Graduate College, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) India; *Department of Zoology, Government Mahamaya College, Ratanpur, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) India are studying some structural and functional properties of ¿Jeewanü.
