{"id":10119,"date":"2011-09-13T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/13\/lee-cronin-making-matter-come\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:53:27","slug":"lee-cronin-making-matter-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/lee-cronin-making-matter-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead &#8220;stuff.&#8221; How improbable is it that life arose? And &#8212; could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a &#8220;Lego kit&#8221; of inorganic molecules &#8212; no carbon &#8212; that can assemble, replicate and compete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011G\/Blank\/LeeCronin_2011G-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/LeeCronin_2011G-embed.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1218&#038;lang=eng&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=lee_cronin_making_matter_come_alive;year=2011;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2011;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=to_boldly_go;event=TEDGlobal+2011;tag=Science;tag=biology;tag=life;tag=nanoscale;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead &#8220;stuff.&#8221; How improbable is it that life arose? And &#8212; could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/lee-cronin-making-matter-come\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Dd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}