{"id":113154,"date":"2020-09-18T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/engineering-living-organisms-could-be-the-worlds-biggest-industry"},"modified":"2020-09-18T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:22:18","slug":"engineering-living-organisms-could-be-the-worlds-biggest-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/engineering-living-organisms-could-be-the-worlds-biggest-industry","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Living Organisms Could Be the World\u2019s Biggest Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-living-organisms-could-be-the-worlds-biggest-industry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be better to have a creature, something furry and warm that had the ability to produce perfect breast milk? A non-sentient, biological organism that has been engineered to produce milk nutritionally equivalent to mother\u2019s milk? A milk Tribble? That type of technology would be awesome for babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl Schmieder: Is there a biological technology that you wished you had?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Hessel:<\/strong> I want the enzymatic DNA synthesizer that will be at least a thousand times better than what we have today. Next-generation sequencing technology massively accelerated our ability to read DNA. An enzymatic DNA synthesizer could be the equivalent accelerator for engineered biology. If you can synthesize DNA faster, then you can conduct more experiments and learn faster. That\u2019s what I\u2019d like to see. More people programming life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be better to have a creature, something furry and warm that had the ability to produce perfect breast milk? A non-sentient, biological organism that has been engineered to produce milk nutritionally equivalent to mother\u2019s milk? A milk Tribble? That type of technology would be awesome for babies. Karl Schmieder: Is there a biological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}