{"id":176052,"date":"2023-11-15T07:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/scientists-just-recreated-the-chemical-reaction-that-may-have-led-to-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2023-11-15T07:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:23:19","slug":"scientists-just-recreated-the-chemical-reaction-that-may-have-led-to-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/scientists-just-recreated-the-chemical-reaction-that-may-have-led-to-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Recreated The Chemical Reaction That May Have Led to Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-recreated-the-chemical-reaction-that-may-have-led-to-life-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them?<\/p>\n<p>According to one school of thought, before the current era of DNA-based life, there was a kind of molecule called RNA (or ribonucleic acid). RNA \u2013 which is still a crucial component of life today \u2013 can replicate itself and catalyse other chemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>But RNA molecules themselves are made from smaller components called ribonucleotides. How would these building blocks have formed on the early Earth, and then combined into RNA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of thought, before the current era of DNA-based life, there was a kind of molecule called RNA (or ribonucleic acid). RNA \u2013 which is still a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}