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Reversion to the Meta Body Form of Life after Complete Cell Death in Pure Liquid Water

Wang, Z.; Fang, L.; Wang, Y.; Qiao, H.; Ma, J.; Yu, D.; Jiang, Y.; Chen, H.; Song, D.; Song, W.; Bai, J.; Xia, Q.

2026-10-11 biophysics
10.64898/2026.10.10.758155 bioRxiv
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The prevailing view holds that simpler animate beings predating the dawn of cellular life once existed, yet they have long since vanished from the present-day Earth. Our hypothesis posits that these animate beings persist to this day. To this end, we devised a long-term experiment spanning over a decade, keeping Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) within a sealed aqueous system of pure water. The findings illustrated that, upon the complete cell death (CCD) of the S. aureus, as cellular remnants progressively succumbed to dissolution, the aqueous solution underwent self-purification, bringing forth a class of lipid bilayer membrane microspheres containing RNA and proteins. These structures maintained long-term sustainable stability within the thermodynamic storm of water molecules and underwent dynamic size fluctuations over time - collectively exhibited phenomena indicative of being "alive". This study reveals that the cell, upon complete cell death, undergoes reversion to a living entity simpler than the cell itself - the Meta Body (MB). The discovery of MB opens an entire re-conceptualization of what death ultimately brings.

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