{"id":121011,"date":"2021-03-29T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-are-weaponizing-viruses-to-solve-a-huge-problem"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:51:22","slug":"scientists-are-weaponizing-viruses-to-solve-a-huge-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-are-weaponizing-viruses-to-solve-a-huge-problem","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are weaponizing viruses to solve a huge problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-weaponizing-viruses-to-solve-a-huge-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now scientists are hoping to use the knowledge about CRISPR systems to engineering phages to destroy dangerous bacteria.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As the world fights the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, another group of dangerous pathogens looms in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now scientists are hoping to use the knowledge about CRISPR systems to engineering phages to destroy dangerous bacteria. As the world fights the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, another group of dangerous pathogens looms in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121011","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\/121011","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}