{"600343":{"#nid":"600343","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can You Teach an Old Gene New Tricks? ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026#39;s called ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR), and it\u0026#39;s a way for Georgia Tech researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/gaucher\/eric\u0022\u003EEric Gaucher\u003C\/a\u003E to recreate ancient genetic material in his lab, and then observe how it evolves when spliced into modern-day variants. ASR has been around since the 1990s, but in recent years Gaucher and colleagues have been\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5371648\/\u0022\u003E working \u003C\/a\u003Eon ways they might be able to use ancient genes to synthesize better disease-fighting proteins. Gaucher is an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2018-01-03 17:51:55","changed_gmt":"2018-01-03 17:54:38","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"fine particulate matter","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/sciworthy.com\/can-you-teach-an-old-gene-new-tricks\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"215671":{"id":"215671","type":"image","title":"Eric Gaucher","body":null,"created":"1449180114","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:54","changed":"1475894879","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:59","alt":"Eric Gaucher","file":{"fid":"197106","name":"gaucher.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gaucher_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gaucher_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":306530,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gaucher_0.jpg?itok=dC_epfF7"}}},"media_ids":["215671"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"5079","name":"Eric Gaucher"},{"id":"170695","name":"ancestral sequence reconstruction"}],"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":""}}}