{"474861":{"#nid":"474861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Before the Chicken and the Egg","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) are trying to unravel the mystery of how prebiotic molecules gave rise to life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ELaunched in 2010 with a $20 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation and NASA, the center is comprised of researchers from multiple institutions led by Georgia Tech\u2019s Nick Hud, director of the CCE, associate director of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ECCE, whose funding was renewed earlier this year, continues to push the envelope of prebiotic chemistry and make advances toward understanding how life took shape on Earth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/what-came-chicken-or-egg\u0022\u003ERead all about the CCE in the current edition of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Center for Chemical Evolution profiled in Research Horizons"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ECenter for Chemical Evolution profiled in \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Center for Chemical Evolution profiled in Research Horizons"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-12-01 20:43:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:08","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"474851":{"id":"474851","type":"image","title":"Nick Hud CCE","body":null,"created":"1449257202","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:42","changed":"1475895225","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:45","alt":"Nick Hud CCE","file":{"fid":"99264","name":"photo_hud.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_hud_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_hud_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":180472,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo_hud_0.jpg?itok=yd65By2V"}}},"media_ids":["474851"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}