{"658400":{"#nid":"658400","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Search For How Life On Earth Transformed From Simple To Complex","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOnce upon a time, all life on Earth was alien.\u0026nbsp;But eventually, strange single-celled organisms thriving on a harsh planet gave way to complex, multicellular organisms made up of the basic building blocks we associate with life today, including carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\u0022\u003ENASA\u003C\/a\u003E announced this week that\u0026nbsp;a new collaboration of astrobiology researchers across the country, working together under a Research Coordination Network called LIFE,\u0026nbsp;will spend the next five years dedicating their efforts to understanding this journey from alien to familiar. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/frank-rosenzweig\u0022\u003EFrank Rosenzweig\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, will co-lead the effort, along with former College of Sciences postdoctoral fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bact.wisc.edu\/people_profile.php?t=rf\u0026amp;p=bkacar\u0022\u003EBet\u0026uuml;l Ka\u0026ccedil;ar\u003C\/a\u003E, now an assistant professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wisc.edu\u0022\u003EUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-05-20 17:36:09","changed_gmt":"2022-05-20 17:36:09","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/530585\/the-search-for-how-life-on-earth-transformed-from-simple-to-complex\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"123971","name":"Frank Rosenzweig"},{"id":"722","name":"Astrobiology"},{"id":"179584","name":"research coordination network"},{"id":"2273","name":"life"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"}],"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":""}}}