{"667376":{"#nid":"667376","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Where did the first sugars come from?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars \u2014 which were necessary for life to evolve \u2014 arose on the early Earth.\u0026nbsp;In a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2451929423001262\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EChem\u003C\/em\u003E, chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that key sugars needed for making early life forms could have emerged from reactions involving glyoxylate (C2HO3\u2013), a relatively simple chemical that plausibly existed on the Earth before life evolved.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-liotta\u0022\u003ECharles Liotta\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0027 Professor Emeritus in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, is one of the study\u0027s authors.\u0026nbsp;(This study was also covered in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/2023\/04\/where-did-the-first-sugars-come-from.html\u0022\u003EAstrobiology\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\u0022\u003EMirage News\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars \u2014 which were necessary for life to evolve \u2014 arose on the early Earth.\u0026nbsp;In a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2451929423001262\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EChem\u003C\/em\u003E, chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that key sugars needed for making early life forms could have emerged from reactions involving glyoxylate (C2HO3\u2013), a relatively simple chemical that plausibly existed on the Earth before life evolved.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-liotta\u0022\u003ECharles Liotta\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0027 Professor Emeritus in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, is one of the study\u0027s authors. (This study was also covered in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/2023\/04\/where-did-the-first-sugars-come-from.html\u0022\u003EAstrobiology\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\u0022\u003EMirage News\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-04-17 15:14:21","changed_gmt":"2023-04-17 17:21:11","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Scripps Research Institute","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/985875","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"167445","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"},{"id":"179960","name":"Charles Liotta"},{"id":"168489","name":"sugars"},{"id":"12661","name":"Early Earth"}],"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":""}}}