{"56477":{"#nid":"56477","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nick Hud\u0027s Research on \u0022Molecular Midwives\u0022 Featured","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Molecular Midwives\u0022 May have Helped give Birth to Genetic Material of Life\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENick Hud, Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry and Associate Director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for Bioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience, has research on \u0022Molecular Midwives\u0022 featured in Daily Times India.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EScientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that small molecules could have acted as \u0022molecular midwives\u0022 in helping the building blocks of life\u0027s genetic material form long chains and may have assisted in selecting the base pairs of the DNA double helix. \u0022Our hypothesis is that before there were protein enzymes to make DNA and RNA, there were small molecules present on the pre-biotic Earth that helped make these polymers by promoting molecular self-assembly,\u0022 said Nicholas V. Hud, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dailytimesindia.com\/2010\/03\/101564.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EView Article\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/~nh38\/hudlab\/Hud_Lab_Home.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHud Lab Website\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Nick Hud, Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry and Associate Director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for Bioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience, has research on \u0022Molecular Midwives\u0022 featured in Daily Times India.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nick Hud\u0027s Research on \u0022Molecular Midwives\u0022 Featured"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2010-03-10 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:11","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56478":{"id":"56478","type":"image","title":"Nicholas Hud, PhD","body":null,"created":"1449175653","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:33","changed":"1475894501","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:41"}},"media_ids":["56478"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9572","name":"Daily India"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"9571","name":"Molecular Midwives"},{"id":"4504","name":"Nicholas Hud"},{"id":"5959","name":"Nick Hud"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}