{"668148":{"#nid":"668148","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Sweet Spark of Life: Unmasking the Origins of Earth\u2019s First Sugars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a study recently published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EChem\u003C\/em\u003E, respected origin-of-life chemists from Scripps Research\u0026nbsp;and Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;put forth a new theory about the origin of the first sugars, integral to the evolution of life, on primitive Earth.\u0026nbsp;They postulated that essential sugars required for creating primordial life forms might have been a result of reactions with glyoxylate (C2HO3\u2013), a fairly basic chemical that plausibly existed on Earth before life evolved. The co-author of the study is \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\u0026nbsp;and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a study recently published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EChem\u003C\/em\u003E, respected origin-of-life chemists from Scripps Research\u0026nbsp;and Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;put forth a new theory about the origin of the first sugars, integral to the evolution of life, on primitive Earth.\u0026nbsp;They postulated that essential sugars required for creating primordial life forms might have been a result of reactions with glyoxylate (C2HO3\u2013), a fairly basic chemical that plausibly existed on Earth before life evolved. The co-author of the study is \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\u0026nbsp;and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-06-20 15:10:32","changed_gmt":"2023-06-20 15:10:32","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SciTechDaily","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-sweet-spark-of-life-unmasking-the-origins-of-earths-first-sugars\/?expand_article=1","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","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":"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":""}}}