{"id":126027,"date":"2021-08-09T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mit-researchers-devised-a-way-to-program-memories-into-bacterial-cells"},"modified":"2021-08-09T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:22:33","slug":"mit-researchers-devised-a-way-to-program-memories-into-bacterial-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mit-researchers-devised-a-way-to-program-memories-into-bacterial-cells","title":{"rendered":"MIT Researchers Devised a Way To Program Memories Into Bacterial Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researchers-devised-a-way-to-program-memories-into-bacterial-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several years, Lu\u2019s lab has been working on ways to use DNA to store information such as memory of cellular events. In 2,014 he and Farzadfard developed a way to employ bacteria as a \u201cgenomic tape recorder,\u201d engineering E. coli to store long-term memories of events such as a chemical exposure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Technique for editing bacterial genomes can record interactions between cells, may offer a way to edit genes in the human microbiome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biological engineers at MIT<\/p>\n<p>MIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is organized into five Schools: architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science. MIT\u2019s impact includes many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, Lu\u2019s lab has been working on ways to use DNA to store information such as memory of cellular events. In 2,014 he and Farzadfard developed a way to employ bacteria as a \u201cgenomic tape recorder,\u201d engineering E. coli to store long-term memories of events such as a chemical exposure. Technique for editing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126027","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=126027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}