{"id":1226,"date":"2012-07-13T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:52:09","slug":"which-came-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/13\/which-came-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Which came first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Simulation Cracks Chicken-Egg Puzzle<br \/>\nNew tech reveals how a protein kickstarts the formation of calcium carbonate particles.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/computer-simulation-cracks-chicken-egg-puzzle.html\">http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/computer-simulation-cracks-chicken-egg-puzzle.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have always thought it had to be the chicken that came first because the egg can&#8217;t lay itself while it is plausible for a chicken-like animal that wasn&#8217;t hatched from an egg to lay one.<\/p>\n<p>What is also interesting to me is the self-assembled nature of the shell formation.  One of the goals of biomimetic materials is to be able to build them a molecule at a time and doing so is much easier if nature can demo a working system for us.<\/p>\n<p>In case you are interested, this appears to be the scientific citation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22531977\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22531977<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Simulation Cracks Chicken-Egg Puzzle New tech reveals how a protein kickstarts the formation of calcium carbonate particles. http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/computer-simulation-cracks-chicken-egg-puzzle.html I have always thought it had to be the chicken that came first because the egg can&#8217;t lay itself while it is plausible for a chicken-like animal that wasn&#8217;t hatched from an egg to lay one. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/13\/which-came-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which came first?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}