{"id":150576,"date":"2022-11-20T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-the-secret-ingredient-for-building-life"},"modified":"2022-11-20T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:22:21","slug":"scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-the-secret-ingredient-for-building-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-the-secret-ingredient-for-building-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claim to Have Discovered the \u201cSecret Ingredient for Building Life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-the-secret-ingredient-for-building-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Purdue University claim to have discovered the \u201cchemistry behind the origin of life\u201d on Earth in simple droplets of water, and they\u2019re using strikingly strong language to celebrate the findings.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Cooks, chemistry professor at Purdue and lead author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.2212642119\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,<\/em> called it a \u201cdramatic discovery\u201d and the \u201csecret ingredient for building life\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-fountain-of-life-scientists-uncover-the-chemistry-behind-the-origin-of-life\/\" class=\"\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is the first demonstration that primordial molecules, simple amino acids, spontaneously form peptides, the building blocks of life, in droplets of pure water.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Purdue University claim to have discovered the \u201cchemistry behind the origin of life\u201d on Earth in simple droplets of water, and they\u2019re using strikingly strong language to celebrate the findings. Graham Cooks, chemistry professor at Purdue and lead author of a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150576","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}