{"664074":{"#nid":"664074","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy growing an unusual tentacled microbe in the lab, microbiologists may have taken a big step toward resolving the earliest branches on the tree of life and unraveling one of its great mysteries: how the complex cells that make up the human body \u0026mdash; and all plants, animals, and many single-celled organisms \u0026mdash; first came to be. Such microbes, called Asgard archaea, have previously been cultured \u0026mdash; once \u0026mdash; but the advance reported in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E marks\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05550-y\u0022\u003Ethe first time they\u0026rsquo;ve been grown in high enough concentrations to study their innards in detail\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-dr-jennifer\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and a geo-microbiologist, didn\u0026#39;t work on\u0026nbsp;the study, but her research\u0026nbsp;in 2020\u0026nbsp;finding unusual ribosome structures in Asgard microbes helped the scientists published in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;zero in on what to look for in their specimens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-12-22 19:14:18","changed_gmt":"2022-12-22 19:14:18","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/strange-tentacled-microbe-may-resemble-ancestor-complex-life","dateline":{"date":"2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"79441","name":"jennifer glass"},{"id":"191787","name":"Asgard archaea"},{"id":"7572","name":"microbes"},{"id":"191788","name":"geo-microbiology"}],"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":""}}}