It’s not known how life’s essential properties of replication, metabolism and compartmentalization were first integrated. Two recent articles now shed light on how metabolic characteristics may be incorporated into replicating systems, harnessing an external energy source to increase their rate of replication and acquiring catalytic activity.

中文翻译：

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结合催化和复制。

尚不清楚生命的复制，新陈代谢和区室化的基本特性是如何首先整合在一起的。现在，最近有两篇文章阐明了如何将代谢特性整合到复制系统中，如何利用外部能源来提高其复制速度并获得催化活性。