{"id":229854,"date":"2026-01-27T01:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/biologists-resurrect-3-2-billion-year-old-enzyme"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:05:48","slug":"biologists-resurrect-3-2-billion-year-old-enzyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/biologists-resurrect-3-2-billion-year-old-enzyme","title":{"rendered":"Biologists \u2018Resurrect\u2019 3.2-Billion-Year-Old Enzyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biologists-resurrect-3-2-billion-year-old-enzyme2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reverse-engineered a primordial nitrogen-fixing enzyme, illuminating how life thrived before oxygen reshaped the planet and establishing a reliable chemical marker for detecting life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reverse-engineered a primordial nitrogen-fixing enzyme, illuminating how life thrived before oxygen reshaped the planet and establishing a reliable chemical marker for detecting life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229854","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=229854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}