{"667719":{"#nid":"667719","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"An Experiment Repeated 600 Times Finds Hints to Evolution\u2019s Secrets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPrecisely how multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled ancestors remains poorly understood. The transition happened hundreds of millions of years ago, and early multicellular species are largely lost to extinction.\u0026nbsp;To investigate how multicellular life evolves from scratch, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology decided to take evolution into their own hands. Led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, a team of researchers has initiated the first long-term evolution experiment aimed at evolving new kinds of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors in the lab. In this case, the cells are snowflake yeast, and they grew so large they could be seen with the naked eye. Other researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EOzan Bozdag,\u003C\/a\u003E research scientist, School of Biological Sciences; Seyed Alireza Zamani Dahaj, computational biologist, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/thomas-day-december-2021\u0022\u003EThomas C. Day\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candidate, School of Physics, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker,\u003C\/a\u003E associate professor, School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthony-burnetti-a75394bb?trk=public_profile_browsemap\u0022\u003EAnthony J. Burnetti\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist; Penelope Kahn, research technician;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dung-thuy-joyce-lac-902379147\u0022\u003EDung T. Lac\u003C\/a\u003E, research technician; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/kai-tong\u0022\u003EKai Tong\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterlconlin\u0022\u003EPeter Conlin\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar, are all from the School of Biological Sciences.\u0026nbsp;(This story was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-common-fungus-evolved-to-grow-20000-times-bigger-in-just-a-few-years\u0022\u003EScienceAlert,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/18\/1176993689\/scientists-finally-know-the-secret-to-creating-and-storing-perfectly-gummy-candy\u0022\u003ENPR\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/biophysical-adaptations-snowflake-yeast-reveal-insights-into-evolution-early-multicellular-life\u0022\u003EInteresting Engineering,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/biology\/evolution-experiment-yeast-single-cell-multicellular\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/a-journey-to-the-origins-of-multicellular-life-long-term-experimental-evolution-in-the-lab\u0022\u003ENewswise\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/multicellular-life-evolves-scratch\/60264\/\u0022\u003ETech Explorist\u003C\/a\u003E. Read more about the research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/journey-origins-multicellular-life-long-term-experimental-evolution-lab\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPrecisely how multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled ancestors remains poorly understood. The transition happened hundreds of millions of years ago, and early multicellular species are largely lost to extinction.\u0026nbsp;To investigate how multicellular life evolves from scratch, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology decided to take evolution into their own hands. Led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, a team of researchers has initiated the first long-term evolution experiment aimed at evolving new kinds of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors in the lab. In this case, the cells are snowflake yeast, and they grew so large they could be seen with the naked eye. Other researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EOzan Bozdag,\u003C\/a\u003E research scientist, School of Biological Sciences; Seyed Alireza Zamani Dahaj, computational biologist, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/thomas-day-december-2021\u0022\u003EThomas C. Day\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candidate, School of Physics, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker,\u003C\/a\u003E associate professor, School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthony-burnetti-a75394bb?trk=public_profile_browsemap\u0022\u003EAnthony J. Burnetti\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist; Penelope Kahn, research technician;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dung-thuy-joyce-lac-902379147\u0022\u003EDung T. Lac\u003C\/a\u003E, research technician; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/kai-tong\u0022\u003EKai Tong\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterlconlin\u0022\u003EPeter Conlin\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar, are all from the School of Biological Sciences. (This story is also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-common-fungus-evolved-to-grow-20000-times-bigger-in-just-a-few-years\u0022\u003EScienceAlert,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/18\/1176993689\/scientists-finally-know-the-secret-to-creating-and-storing-perfectly-gummy-candy\u0022\u003ENPR,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/biophysical-adaptations-snowflake-yeast-reveal-insights-into-evolution-early-multicellular-life\u0022\u003EInteresting Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/biology\/evolution-experiment-yeast-single-cell-multicellular\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/a-journey-to-the-origins-of-multicellular-life-long-term-experimental-evolution-in-the-lab\u0022\u003ENewswise\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/multicellular-life-evolves-scratch\/60264\/\u0022\u003ETech Explorist\u003C\/a\u003E. Read more about the research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/journey-origins-multicellular-life-long-term-experimental-evolution-lab\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-05-11 18:03:08","changed_gmt":"2023-05-30 14:19:10","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The New York Times ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/10\/science\/yeast-evolution-cells-snowflakes.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience\u0026smtyp=cur","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670842":{"id":"670842","type":"image","title":"A snowflake-y clump of yeast cells","body":null,"created":"1684440056","gmt_created":"2023-05-18 20:00:56","changed":"1684440056","gmt_changed":"2023-05-18 20:00:56","alt":"A snowflake-y clump of yeast cells","file":{"fid":"253779","name":"200x200.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/18\/200x200.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/18\/200x200.png","mime":"image\/png","size":84982,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/18\/200x200.png?itok=HH1nvBgI"}}},"media_ids":["670842"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"175571","name":"Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences"},{"id":"176339","name":"multicellularity"},{"id":"180743","name":"transition to multicellularity"},{"id":"177585","name":"William Ratcliff"},{"id":"168707","name":"Peter Yunker"},{"id":"188064","name":"G Ozan Bozdag"},{"id":"189057","name":"Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj"},{"id":"189055","name":"Thomas C. 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