{"id":479389,"date":"2018-05-25T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=60e94e5f8e4fbc3accfdb18bba649a4b"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T12:23:00","slug":"a-better-b1-building-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=479389","title":{"rendered":"A better B1 building block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans aren&#8217;t the only earth-bound organisms that need to take their vitamins. Thiamine \u2013 commonly known as vitamin B1 \u2013 is vital to the survival of most every living thing on earth. But the average bacterium or plant can&#8217;t just run to the local drugstore for a supply, they have to scavenge it (or its component parts) from their surroundings. New NC State research shows that a little-studied B1 precursor, or component, called cHET can be easily taken up and used in extremely small concentrations by marine microorganisms such as phytoplankton, as well as by plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans aren&#8217;t the only earth-bound organisms that need to take their vitamins. Thiamine &ndash; commonly known as vitamin B1 &ndash; is vital to the survival of most every living thing on earth. But the average bacterium or plant can&#8217;t just run to the local drugstore for a supply, they have to scavenge it (or its component parts) from their surroundings. New NC State research shows that a little-studied B1 precursor, or component, called cHET can be easily taken up and used in extremely small concentrations by marine microorganisms such as phytoplankton, as well as by plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479389","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479390,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479389\/revisions\/479390"}],"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=479389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}