{"id":189783,"date":"2024-05-20T23:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/lifes-secret-ingredient-usc-scientist-discovers-new-rule-of-biology"},"modified":"2024-05-20T23:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:24:57","slug":"lifes-secret-ingredient-usc-scientist-discovers-new-rule-of-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/lifes-secret-ingredient-usc-scientist-discovers-new-rule-of-biology","title":{"rendered":"Life\u2019s Secret Ingredient? USC Scientist Discovers New \u201cRule of Biology\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lifes-secret-ingredient-usc-scientist-discovers-new-rule-of-biology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Southern California Dornsife molecular biologist John Tower suggests that while living things generally prefer stability to conserve energy and resources, instability may also play a crucial role.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A molecular biologist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/usc\/\">USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/a> may have found a new \u201crule of biology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rule of biology, sometimes called a biological law, describes a recognized pattern or truism among living organisms. Allen\u2019s rule, for example, states that among warm-blooded animals, those found in colder areas have shorter, thicker limbs (to conserve body heat) than those in hotter regions, which need more body surface area to dissipate heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Southern California Dornsife molecular biologist John Tower suggests that while living things generally prefer stability to conserve energy and resources, instability may also play a crucial role. A molecular biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found a new \u201crule of biology.\u201d A rule of biology, sometimes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783","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=189783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}