{"id":239521,"date":"2026-06-24T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-just-found-all-5-genetic-letters-of-dna-and-rna-on-an-asteroid"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:20:21","slug":"scientists-just-found-all-5-genetic-letters-of-dna-and-rna-on-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-just-found-all-5-genetic-letters-of-dna-and-rna-on-an-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Found All 5 Genetic \u201cLetters\u201d of DNA and RNA on an Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-all-5-genetic-letters-of-dna-and-rna-on-an-asteroid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life\u2019s molecular ingredients formed in space before reaching Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life\u2019s molecular ingredients formed in space before reaching Earth.<\/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-239521","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\/239521","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=239521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}