{"id":121016,"date":"2021-03-29T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/should-we-genetically-engineer-carbon-hungry-trees"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:52:47","slug":"should-we-genetically-engineer-carbon-hungry-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/should-we-genetically-engineer-carbon-hungry-trees","title":{"rendered":"Should We Genetically Engineer Carbon-Hungry Trees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-we-genetically-engineer-carbon-hungry-trees2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t do both, you\u2019re not going to get very far,\u201d he says. He wants to bring \u201ccarbon drawdown\u201d technologies into the conversation with genetically modified trees.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, DeLisi organized a workshop with a team of heavy hitters \u2014 Sir Richard Roberts (biochemist, Nobel laureate, and staunch advocate for GMOs), Val Giddings (a geneticist at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), and researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u2014 to create solutions, like genetically modifying carbon-hungry trees.<\/p>\n<p>And they are close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t do both, you\u2019re not going to get very far,\u201d he says. He wants to bring \u201ccarbon drawdown\u201d technologies into the conversation with genetically modified trees. Last year, DeLisi organized a workshop with a team of heavy hitters \u2014 Sir Richard Roberts (biochemist, Nobel laureate, and staunch advocate for GMOs), Val Giddings (a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121016","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=121016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}