{"id":1062,"date":"2007-11-26T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/26\/origin-0f-life-research\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:13:52","slug":"origin-0f-life-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/origin-0f-life-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin 0f Life Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on Earth.CU-Boulder physics Professor Noel Clark said the team found that surprisingly short segments of DNA, life&#8217;s molecular carrier of genetic information, could assemble into several distinct liquid crystal phases that &#8220;self-orient&#8221; parallel to one another and stack into columns when placed in a water solution. Life is widely believed to have emerged as segments of DNA- or RNA-like molecules in a prebiotic &#8220;soup&#8221; solution of ancient organic molecules. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on Earth.CU-Boulder physics Professor Noel Clark said the team found that surprisingly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/origin-0f-life-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Origin 0f Life Research<\/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-h8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"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=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}