{"650895":{"#nid":"650895","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Evolving globs of yeast may unlock mysteries of multicellular life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow did cells first glom together, learn to cooperate, and yield organisms that contain millions, billions, or even trillions of cells? In a new experiment, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology oversaw the evolution of clusters of yeast that each grew to contain hundreds of thousands of cells\u0026mdash;the largest of their kind\u0026mdash;enabling the scientists to study the possible origins of complex multicellular structures. One of those scientists is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences in the School of Biological Sciences. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/single-cells-evolve-large-multicellular-forms-in-just-two-years-20210922\/\u0022\u003EQuanta Magazine \u003C\/a\u003Ealso reported on this experiment.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-09-17 19:25:54","changed_gmt":"2021-09-23 16:14:29","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"college of engineering; Lauren steimle; Meghan Meredith; isye; NSF; NSF grfp; graduate research","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/evolving-globs-of-yeast-may-unlock-mysteries-of-multicellular-life","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"108591","name":"Will Ratcliff"},{"id":"176339","name":"multicellularity"},{"id":"3028","name":"evolution"},{"id":"170334","name":"yeast"}],"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":""}}}