{"id":205243,"date":"2025-02-02T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-may-have-found-traces-of-an-extinct-genetic-code-that-came-before-dna"},"modified":"2025-02-02T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:08:37","slug":"scientists-may-have-found-traces-of-an-extinct-genetic-code-that-came-before-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-may-have-found-traces-of-an-extinct-genetic-code-that-came-before-dna","title":{"rendered":"Scientists May Have Found Traces of an Extinct Genetic Code That Came Before DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-found-traces-of-an-extinct-genetic-code-that-came-before-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c tabindex=\u201d0\u201d amino acids and incorporated sulfur-based compounds much earlier than previously thought. This challenges long-standing experiments and opens the door to the possibility that extinct genetic codes existed before ours.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cracking the Code of Life\u2019s Origins<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly all life on Earth \u2014 from tiny bacteria to massive blue whales \u2014 shares the same genetic code. But exactly how and when this code emerged remains a topic of scientific debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c tabindex=\u201d0\u201d amino acids and incorporated sulfur-based compounds much earlier than previously thought. This challenges long-standing experiments and opens the door to the possibility that extinct genetic codes existed before ours. Cracking the Code of Life\u2019s Origins Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly all life on Earth \u2014 from tiny bacteria to massive blue whales \u2014 shares [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205243","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\/205243","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}