{"id":9009,"date":"2020-10-16T02:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/origins-of-metabolism-revealed-two-chemicals-in-earths-primordial-soup-allowed-the-first-life-to-form\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:35:45","slug":"origins-of-metabolism-revealed-two-chemicals-in-earths-primordial-soup-allowed-the-first-life-to-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/origins-of-metabolism-revealed-two-chemicals-in-earths-primordial-soup-allowed-the-first-life-to-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Two chemicals in Earth&#8217;s primordial soup &#8216;allowed the first life to form&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Stubbs, a 2020 Furman University alumnus, and his mentor Furman Chemistry Professor Greg Springsteen, have found a simple reaction between two chemicals in &#8220;Earth&#8217;s primordial soup&#8221; billions of years ago may have led to the first form of metabolism. Their work, with substantial input from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute, was published in Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Pinkstone, writing for United Kingdom publication <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-8843575\/Two-chemicals-Earths-primordial-soup-created-Krebs-cycle.html\">Mail Online<\/a><\/strong>, delved further into the paper. The two chemicals, glyoxylate and pyruvate, &#8220;may have laid the foundations for the emergence of what we would come to know as the Krebs cycle,&#8221; wrote Pinkstone, who also offered background on the cycle and the scientist for whom it is named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Stubbs, a 2020 Furman University alumnus, and his mentor Furman Chemistry Professor Greg Springsteen, have found a simple reaction between two chemicals in &#8220;Earth&#8217;s primordial soup&#8221; billions of years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,3,53,6,61,55],"tags":[552,553],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-chemistry","category-in-the-news","category-the-furman-advantage","category-undergraduate-research","tag-krebs-cycle","tag-origins-of-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}