{"667690":{"#nid":"667690","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Journey to the Origins of Multicellular Life: Long-Term Experimental Evolution in the Lab","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world would look very different without multicellular organisms \u2013 take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars.\u0026nbsp;But precisely how multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled ancestors remains poorly understood. The transition happened hundreds of millions of years ago, and early multicellular species are largely lost to extinction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo investigate how multicellular life evolves from scratch, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology decided to take evolution into their own hands. Led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, a team of researchers has initiated the first long-term evolution experiment aimed at evolving new kinds of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors in the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/journey-origins-multicellular-life-long-term-experimental-evolution-lab\u0022\u003ERead the rest of the story here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo investigate how multicellular life evolves from scratch, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology decided to take evolution into their own hands. Led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, a team of researchers has initiated the first long-term evolution experiment aimed at evolving new kinds of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors in the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Over 3,000 generations of laboratory evolution, Georgia Tech researchers watched as their model organism, \u201csnowflake yeast,\u201d began to adapt as multicellular individuals."}],"uid":"36123","created_gmt":"2023-05-10 18:42:42","changed_gmt":"2023-05-11 14:52:37","author":"Catherine Barzler","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670779":{"id":"670779","type":"image","title":"Macroscopic snowflake yeast with elongated cells fracture into modules, retaining the same underlying branched growth form of their microscopic ancestor.","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMacroscopic snowflake yeast with elongated cells fracture into modules, retaining the same underlying branched growth form of their microscopic ancestor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1683745408","gmt_created":"2023-05-10 19:03:28","changed":"1683745408","gmt_changed":"2023-05-10 19:03:28","alt":"Macroscopic snowflake yeast with elongated cells fracture into modules, retaining the same underlying branched growth form of their microscopic ancestor.","file":{"fid":"253707","name":"600-nuclei-cellwall_20220713_01_Maximum_Z (2)_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/10\/600-nuclei-cellwall_20220713_01_Maximum_Z%20%282%29_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/10\/600-nuclei-cellwall_20220713_01_Maximum_Z%20%282%29_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":8160364,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/10\/600-nuclei-cellwall_20220713_01_Maximum_Z%20%282%29_0.png?itok=NZCTeaJH"}}},"media_ids":["670779"],"groups":[{"id":"620089","name":"Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI)"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:catherine.barzler@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECatherine Barzler,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Senior Research Writer\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["catherine.barzler@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}