{"id":213615,"date":"2025-05-09T06:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/dna-like-molecule-may-survive-venus-like-cloud-conditions"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:13:42","slug":"dna-like-molecule-may-survive-venus-like-cloud-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/dna-like-molecule-may-survive-venus-like-cloud-conditions","title":{"rendered":"DNA-like molecule may survive Venus-like cloud conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-like-molecule-may-survive-venus-like-cloud-conditions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very different to that on Earth, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Long thought to be hostile to complex organic chemistry because of the absence of water, the clouds of Earth\u2019s sister planet are made of droplets of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sulfuric+acid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sulfuric acid<\/a>, chlorine, iron, and other substances.<\/p>\n<p>But research led by Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology shows how peptide nucleic acid (PNA)\u2014a structural cousin of DNA\u2014can survive under lab conditions made to mimic conditions that can occur in Venus\u2019 perpetual clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very different to that on Earth, according to a new study. Long thought to be hostile to complex organic chemistry because of the absence of water, the clouds of Earth\u2019s sister planet are made of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213615","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=213615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}