{"id":298767,"date":"2017-04-07T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/04\/170407160344.htm"},"modified":"2017-04-07T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:03:44","slug":"scientists-watch-a-molecule-protect-itself-from-radiation-damage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=298767","title":{"rendered":"Scientists watch a molecule protect itself from radiation damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When DNA is hit with ultraviolet light, it can lose excess energy from radiation by ejecting the core of a hydrogen atom \u2014 a single proton \u2014 to keep other chemical bonds in the system from breaking. To gain insight into this process, researchers used X-ray laser pulses from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to investigate how energy from light transforms a relatively simple molecule, 2-thiopyridone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When DNA is hit with ultraviolet light, it can lose excess energy from radiation by ejecting the core of a hydrogen atom &mdash; a single proton &mdash; to keep other chemical bonds in the system from breaking. To gain insight into this process, researchers used X-ray laser pulses from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the Department of Energy&rsquo;s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to investigate how energy from light transforms a relatively simple molecule, 2-thiopyridone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298768,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298767\/revisions\/298768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}