{"id":19712,"date":"2015-12-01T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/looking-back-3-8-billion-years-into-the-root-of-the-tree-of-life"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:32:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:32:34","slug":"looking-back-3-8-billion-years-into-the-root-of-the-tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/looking-back-3-8-billion-years-into-the-root-of-the-tree-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Looking back 3.8 billion years into the root of the \u2018Tree of Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/looking-back-3-8-billion-years-into-the-root-of-the-tree-of-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ribosome is one of the primary target for antibiotics, so understanding its architecture and consistently throughout biology could be of great benefit,\u201d said Williams. \u201cBy studying the ribosome, we can start thinking about biology in a different way. We can see the symbiotic relationship between RNA and proteins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the ribosomal core is the same across species, what\u2019s added on top differs. Humans have the largest ribosome, encompassing some 7,000 nucleotides representing dramatic growth from the hundred or so base pairs at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about is going from short oligomers, short pieces of RNA, to the biology we see today,\u201d said Williams. \u201cThe increase in size and complexity is mind-boggling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-billion-years-root-tree-life.html#jCp\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ribosome is one of the primary target for antibiotics, so understanding its architecture and consistently throughout biology could be of great benefit,\u201d said Williams. \u201cBy studying the ribosome, we can start thinking about biology in a different way. We can see the symbiotic relationship between RNA and proteins.\u201d While the ribosomal core is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712","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\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51275,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions\/51275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}