{"id":243163,"date":"2026-08-25T05:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-discover-a-bizarre-new-way-life-can-make-dna-without-dna"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:04:56","slug":"scientists-discover-a-bizarre-new-way-life-can-make-dna-without-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-discover-a-bizarre-new-way-life-can-make-dna-without-dna","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a Bizarre New Way Life Can Make DNA\u2026 Without DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-bizarre-new-way-life-can-make-dna-without-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template. To make RNA, cells generally use DNA as a template, while RNA in turn provides the instructions for making proteins.<\/p>\n<p>But now a bacterium has revealed a different path, and it\u2019s deeply surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template. To make RNA, cells generally use DNA as a template, while RNA in turn provides the instructions for making proteins. But now a bacterium has revealed a different path, and it\u2019s deeply surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243163","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=243163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}