{"623994":{"#nid":"623994","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"We\u0027re All Born from the Same 20 Amino Acids, So Can\u0027t We All Just Get Along?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELife on Earth is complex and varied, but every living organism on the planet builds its proteins from the same set of 20 amino acids. All proteins in a human body, for example, are made up of some combination of the 20 common amino acids. But how exactly did that happen? Chemists say they might finally have some answers. ... \u0026ldquo;The research helps us understand how positively charged peptides could have formed on the pre-biotic earth,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Cstrong\u003EMoran Frenkel-Pinter,\u003C\/strong\u003E Ph.D., in the press statement. Frenkel-Pinter, a postdoctoral fellow at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech, is the first author of the accompanying paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-08-05 16:35:10","changed_gmt":"2019-08-05 16:57:48","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"campus construcation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/environment\/a28580593\/amino-acids-building-blocks\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619362":{"id":"619362","type":"image","title":"Moran Frenkel-Pinter","body":null,"created":"1552921987","gmt_created":"2019-03-18 15:13:07","changed":"1564677391","gmt_changed":"2019-08-01 16:36:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235788","name":"2019 Moran Frenkel-Pinter.sq250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20Moran%20Frenkel-Pinter.sq250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20Moran%20Frenkel-Pinter.sq250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":88850,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2019%20Moran%20Frenkel-Pinter.sq250.jpg?itok=TmUo3jkN"}}},"media_ids":["619362"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9854","name":"Origin Of Life"},{"id":"10339","name":"center for chemical evolution"},{"id":"181900","name":"Moran Frenkel-Pinter"}],"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":""}}}