{"id":241166,"date":"2026-07-18T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/rna-can-do-things-which-we-have-never-seen-before-new-study-challenges-assumptions-about-what-rna-was-up-to-at-the-dawn-of-life"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:13:08","slug":"rna-can-do-things-which-we-have-never-seen-before-new-study-challenges-assumptions-about-what-rna-was-up-to-at-the-dawn-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/rna-can-do-things-which-we-have-never-seen-before-new-study-challenges-assumptions-about-what-rna-was-up-to-at-the-dawn-of-life","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RNA can do things which we have never seen before\u2019: New study challenges assumptions about what RNA was up to at the dawn of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rna-can-do-things-which-we-have-never-seen-before-new-study-challenges-assumptions-about-what-rna-was-up-to-at-the-dawn-of-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241166","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}