{"id":160921,"date":"2023-03-24T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-identify-pioneer-peptide-that-may-have-sparked-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2023-03-24T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:26:27","slug":"scientists-identify-pioneer-peptide-that-may-have-sparked-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-identify-pioneer-peptide-that-may-have-sparked-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Identify \u201cPioneer Peptide\u201d That May Have Sparked Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-pioneer-peptide-that-may-have-sparked-life-on-earth.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Rutgers University scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism \u2013 a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth \u2013 has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published on March 10 in the journal <em> Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;em&gt;Science Advances&lt;\/em&gt; is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal that is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It was launched in 2015 and covers a wide range of topics in the natural sciences, including biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Rutgers University scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism \u2013 a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth \u2013 has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life. The research, published on March 10 in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160921","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=160921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}