{"636401":{"#nid":"636401","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The First Gene on Earth May Have Been a Hybrid","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new experiment suggests DNA and RNA may have formed together before the origin of life. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hud\/\u0022\u003ENicholas\u0026nbsp;Hud\u003C\/a\u003E thinks evolution would then have gradually produced the current genetic system over long stretches of geologic time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-06-22 18:51:44","changed_gmt":"2020-06-22 18:51:44","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"work family interactions","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-first-gene-on-earth-may-have-been-a-hybrid\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}