{"591914":{"#nid":"591914","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Chemists may be zeroing in on chemical reactions that sparked the first life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDNA has had plenty of time in the spotlight over the decades, yet\u0026nbsp;many scientists theorize that ribonucleic acid (RNA) was the key to helping kick-start life on Earth. But how did the four nucleotides that make up RNA come into existence if they weren\u0026#39;t around during the planet\u0026#39;s beginnings? A new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms15270\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E from researchers based in the United Kingdom may be getting closer to answers,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hud\/\u0022\u003ENicholas Hud\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, weighs in on their efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-05-19 13:38:17","changed_gmt":"2017-05-19 15:09:18","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"FITRE","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/chemists-may-be-zeroing-chemical-reactions-sparked-first-life","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591915":{"id":"591915","type":"image","title":"Nicholas Hud","body":null,"created":"1495201176","gmt_created":"2017-05-19 13:39:36","changed":"1495201176","gmt_changed":"2017-05-19 13:39:36","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225584","name":"Nicholas Hud.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Nicholas%20Hud.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Nicholas%20Hud.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":161773,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Nicholas%20Hud.jpg?itok=xoI1Hxr0"}}},"media_ids":["591915"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"4504","name":"Nicholas Hud"},{"id":"1041","name":"dna"},{"id":"984","name":"RNA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}