{"id":193063,"date":"2024-07-17T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-luca-earths-earliest-life-form"},"modified":"2024-07-17T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:25:22","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-luca-earths-earliest-life-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-luca-earths-earliest-life-form","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Secrets of LUCA, Earth\u2019s Earliest Life Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-luca-earths-earliest-life-form2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Bristol-led study found that life on Earth, stemming from a common ancestor called LUCA, flourished soon after the planet\u2019s formation.<\/p>\n<p>Through genetic analysis and evolutionary modeling, researchers pinpointed LUCA\u2019s existence to about 4.2 billion years ago, revealing it as a complex organism with an early immune system integral to Earth\u2019s earliest ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Luca\u2019s genetic blueprint and its descendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Bristol-led study found that life on Earth, stemming from a common ancestor called LUCA, flourished soon after the planet\u2019s formation. Through genetic analysis and evolutionary modeling, researchers pinpointed LUCA\u2019s existence to about 4.2 billion years ago, revealing it as a complex organism with an early immune system integral to Earth\u2019s earliest ecosystems. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193063","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}