{"id":184800,"date":"2024-03-09T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-study-discovers-how-altered-protein-folding-drives-multicellular-evolution"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:32:00","slug":"new-study-discovers-how-altered-protein-folding-drives-multicellular-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-study-discovers-how-altered-protein-folding-drives-multicellular-evolution","title":{"rendered":"New study discovers how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-discovers-how-altered-protein-folding-drives-multicellular-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a mechanism steering the evolution of multicellular life. They identify how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adn2706\">new study<\/a> led by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Georgia Institute of Technology, scientists turned to a tool called experimental evolution. In the ongoing Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE), laboratory yeast are evolving novel multicellular functions, enabling researchers to investigate how they arise.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, puts the spotlight on the regulation of proteins in understanding evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a mechanism steering the evolution of multicellular life. They identify how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution. In a new study led by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Georgia Institute of Technology, scientists turned to a tool called experimental evolution. In the ongoing Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184800","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}