{"id":123373,"date":"2021-06-03T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-reprogrammed-bacteria-to-be-immune-to-viruses"},"modified":"2021-06-03T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:22:48","slug":"scientists-reprogrammed-bacteria-to-be-immune-to-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-reprogrammed-bacteria-to-be-immune-to-viruses","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reprogrammed bacteria to be immune to viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reprogrammed-bacteria-to-be-immune-to-viruses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists created a synthetic genome for a bacterium by stringing together building blocks of DNA \u2014 and the new genome made the microbe immune to viral infection.<\/p>\n<p>Even when exposed to a cocktail of bacteriophages \u2014 viruses that infect bacteria \u2014 the designer Escherichia coli remained unscathed, while an unmodified version of the bacterium quickly succumbed to the viral attack and died, the research team reported in their new study, published Thursday (June 3) in the journal Science. That\u2019s because viruses usually hijack a cell\u2019s internal machinery to make new copies of themselves, but in the designer E. coli, that machinery no longer existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists created a synthetic genome for a bacterium by stringing together building blocks of DNA \u2014 and the new genome made the microbe immune to viral infection. Even when exposed to a cocktail of bacteriophages \u2014 viruses that infect bacteria \u2014 the designer Escherichia coli remained unscathed, while an unmodified version of the bacterium quickly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123373","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}