{"641046":{"#nid":"641046","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Origin of Life: \u0022Chicken or Egg\u0022 or Red Herring?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe origins of life on Earth remains one of science\u0026rsquo;s biggest mysteries. Scientists have long tried to figure out the precursors to both\u0026nbsp;RNA\u0026nbsp;(ribonucleic acid) and\u0026nbsp;DNA\u0026nbsp;(deoxyribonucleic acid), as well as how the two emerged.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/news\/lifes-origins-in-a-mixed-up-world\/\u0022\u003EDr. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Scripps Research Institute investigates possible chemical origins of both\u0026nbsp;RNA\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;DNA, and his recent publication in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;raises an intriguing question: could\u0026nbsp;RNA\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;DNA\u0026nbsp;have arisen together, rather than one emerging before the other?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-11-05 20:14:20","changed_gmt":"2020-11-05 20:14:20","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 American Mathematical Society Fellows","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/origin-and-evolution-of-life\/the-origin-of-life-chicken-or-egg-or-red-herring\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"984","name":"RNA"},{"id":"1041","name":"dna"},{"id":"186212","name":"chemical origins"},{"id":"136661","name":"origins of life"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}