{"625759":{"#nid":"625759","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Cyanide in the Warm Little Pond: A Clue to Phosphate Availability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recent study shows that cyanide and urea-based solvents could have played a role in making phosphate available for the origins of life on the early Earth. Phosphate is essential for life, and is used in the backbones of molecules like\u0026nbsp;DNA. However, the availability of phosphate early in Earth\u0026rsquo;s history is thought to have been low because it would have been sequestered in insoluble calcium and iron minerals. Published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/ange.201908272\u0022\u003EAngewandte Chemie\u003C\/a\u003E, the work was carried out by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/hud\/bradley-burcar\u0022\u003EBradley Burcar\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Alma Casta\u0026ntilde;eda,\u0026nbsp;Jennifer Lago,\u0026nbsp;Mischael Daniels,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/centerforchemicalevolution.com\/matt-pasek\u0022\u003EMatthew Pasek\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hud\/\u0022\u003ENicholas Hud\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/orlando\u0022\u003EThomas Orlando\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/hud\/cesar-menor-salvan\u0022\u003ECesar Menor-Salvan\u003C\/a\u003E in the NASA\/NSF Center for Chemical Evolution and the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-09-06 17:04:59","changed_gmt":"2019-09-09 21:52:24","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tech Fee funds","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/news\/cyanide-in-the-warm-little-pond-a-clue-to-phosphate-availability\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"611625":{"id":"611625","type":"image","title":"Nicholas Hud","body":null,"created":"1537287309","gmt_created":"2018-09-18 16:15:09","changed":"1537287309","gmt_changed":"2018-09-18 16:15:09","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232838","name":"nick-hud-ba-uracil_1__1_.sq250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nick-hud-ba-uracil_1__1_.sq250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nick-hud-ba-uracil_1__1_.sq250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":83439,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nick-hud-ba-uracil_1__1_.sq250.jpg?itok=Zoktzfwg"}},"611624":{"id":"611624","type":"image","title":"Thomas Orlando","body":null,"created":"1537287267","gmt_created":"2018-09-18 16:14:27","changed":"1537287267","gmt_changed":"2018-09-18 16:14:27","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232837","name":"Thomas.Orlando.sq250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Thomas.Orlando.sq250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Thomas.Orlando.sq250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":117269,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Thomas.Orlando.sq250.jpg?itok=qIQ_u5nC"}}},"media_ids":["611625","611624"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10339","name":"center for chemical evolution"}],"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":""}}}