{"id":113761,"date":"2020-10-03T03:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T10:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/synthetic-biology-brings-the-hard-science-of-engineering-to-the-basics-of-life"},"modified":"2020-10-03T03:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T10:32:23","slug":"synthetic-biology-brings-the-hard-science-of-engineering-to-the-basics-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/synthetic-biology-brings-the-hard-science-of-engineering-to-the-basics-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic biology brings the hard science of engineering to the basics of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-biology-brings-the-hard-science-of-engineering-to-the-basics-of-life.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biology startups <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"raised some $3 billion\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/synthetic-biology-industry-gathers-at-synbiobeta-2020-global-summit-to-grow-the-bioeconomy-fight-the-pandemic-and-honor-crispr-pioneer-jennifer-doudna-301139261.html\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/synthetic-biology-industry-gathers-at-synbiobeta-2020-global-summit-to-grow-the-bioeconomy-fight-the-pandemic-and-honor-crispr-pioneer-jennifer-doudna-301139261.html\" target=\"_blank\">raised some $3 billion<\/a> through the first half of 2020, up from $1.9 billion for all of 2019, as the field brings the science of engineering to the art of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Synthetic biologists are gradually learning how to program the code of life the way that computer experts have learned to program machines. If they can succeed \u2014 and if the public accepts their work \u2014 synthetic biology stands to fundamentally transform how we live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening: <\/strong><a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"SynBioBeta\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SynBioBeta<\/a>, synthetic biology\u2019s major commercial conference, launched on Tuesday, virtually bringing together thousands of scientists, entrepreneurs, VCs and more to discuss the state of the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic biology startups raised some $3 billion through the first half of 2020, up from $1.9 billion for all of 2019, as the field brings the science of engineering to the art of life. The big picture: Synthetic biologists are gradually learning how to program the code of life the way that computer experts have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1523,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-computing","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113761","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}