{"id":122751,"date":"2021-05-20T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-the-biggest-scientific-shock-of-my-life"},"modified":"2021-05-20T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:23:37","slug":"a-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-the-biggest-scientific-shock-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-the-biggest-scientific-shock-of-my-life","title":{"rendered":"A Molecule That Shouldn\u2019t Exist \u2013 \u201cThe Biggest Scientific Shock of My Life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-the-biggest-scientific-shock-of-my-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem and a loop, and the glycan as a Tinkertoy-like structure branching off it. Credit: Emily M. Eng\/R. Flynn et al.\/Cell 2021.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sugars attach to certain RNA molecules on the outside membrane of the cell. The newly discovered \u201cglycoRNAs\u201d may be involved in immune signaling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a surprise find, scientists have discovered sugar-coated RNA molecules decorating the surface of cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem and a loop, and the glycan as a Tinkertoy-like structure branching off it. Credit: Emily M. Eng\/R. Flynn et al.\/Cell 2021. Sugars attach to certain RNA molecules on the outside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}