{"id":9015,"date":"2020-10-19T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/simple-ingredients-can-approximate-metabolic-cycle-without-metals-or-enzymes\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:35:52","slug":"simple-ingredients-can-approximate-metabolic-cycle-without-metals-or-enzymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/simple-ingredients-can-approximate-metabolic-cycle-without-metals-or-enzymes\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple ingredients can approximate metabolic cycle sans metals, enzymes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celia Henry Arnaud, senior correspondent with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/biological-chemistry\/origins-of-life\/Simple-ingredients-approximate-metabolic-cycle\/98\/web\/2020\/10\">Chemical &amp; Engineering News<\/a><\/strong>, covers new research conducted by Furman Chemistry Professor Greg Springsteen, Trent Stubbs &#8217;20 and scientists at The Scripps Research Institute. The study, which was published in Nature Chemistry, found that a simple pH-controlled phosphate slurry of pyruvate and glyoxylate could produce reactions analogous to those in the Krebs cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because [the Krebs cycle is] so fundamental to life on Earth, scientists are interested in studying how it might have emerged from prebiotic chemistry on early Earth,&#8221; wrote Arnaud, who asked chemists at St. Louis University and Georgia Tech for their thoughts on the discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celia Henry Arnaud, senior correspondent with Chemical &amp; Engineering News, covers new research conducted by Furman Chemistry Professor Greg Springsteen, Trent Stubbs &#8217;20 and scientists at The Scripps Research Institute. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9016,"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":[563,552,564,553,565,566],"class_list":["post-9015","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-citric-acid-cycle","tag-krebs-cycle","tag-metabolic-cycle","tag-origins-of-life","tag-tca-cycle","tag-tricarboxylic-acid-cycle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","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=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}