{"id":124997,"date":"2021-07-15T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/newly-discovered-borg-dna-is-unlike-anything-scientists-have-ever-seen"},"modified":"2021-07-15T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:23:09","slug":"newly-discovered-borg-dna-is-unlike-anything-scientists-have-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/newly-discovered-borg-dna-is-unlike-anything-scientists-have-ever-seen","title":{"rendered":"Newly-Discovered \u2018Borg\u2019 DNA Is Unlike Anything Scientists Have Ever Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-borg-dna-is-unlike-anything-scientists-have-ever-seen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That said, the Borgs do clearly contain metabolic genes, which might be able to boost the energy metabolisms of Methanoperedens that host them. If so, these unique genetic elements could provide new insights into reducing methane emissions, which is a major aim for climate change mitigation plans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>These \u2018Borg\u2019 elements assimilated genes from other organisms, and could be used to help fight climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That said, the Borgs do clearly contain metabolic genes, which might be able to boost the energy metabolisms of Methanoperedens that host them. If so, these unique genetic elements could provide new insights into reducing methane emissions, which is a major aim for climate change mitigation plans. These \u2018Borg\u2019 elements assimilated genes from other organisms, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124997","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=124997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}