{"id":123055,"date":"2021-05-26T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-biochemical-that-could-be-in-all-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2021-05-26T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:23:28","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-biochemical-that-could-be-in-all-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-biochemical-that-could-be-in-all-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a New Type of Biochemical That Could Be in All Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-biochemical-that-could-be-in-all-life-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wonderful mess of molecules that make up living things is so complex, biologists have overlooked an entire class of them \u2013 until now. This missed bit of biochemistry is neither rare nor hard to find; it\u2019s just no one had thought to look for it before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a stunning discovery of an entirely new class of biomolecules,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2021\/05\/17\/stanford-study-reveals-new-biomolecule\/\">said<\/a> Stanford biochemist Carolyn Bertozzi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a bombshell because the discovery suggests that there are biomolecular pathways in the cell that are completely unknown to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful mess of molecules that make up living things is so complex, biologists have overlooked an entire class of them \u2013 until now. This missed bit of biochemistry is neither rare nor hard to find; it\u2019s just no one had thought to look for it before. \u201cThis is a stunning discovery of an entirely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123055","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}