{"id":128921,"date":"2021-10-13T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-genetically-modify-plants-to-grow-meat-protein"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:22:17","slug":"scientists-genetically-modify-plants-to-grow-meat-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-genetically-modify-plants-to-grow-meat-protein","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Genetically Modify Plants to Grow Meat Protein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-genetically-modify-plants-to-grow-meat-protein2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Iceland are growing over 100,000 genetically modified barley plants inside a greenhouse for a very unusual purpose: creating lab-grown meat, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/technology-58709069\" class=\"\"><em>BBC<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The altered barley gets harvested and purified to extract \u201cgrowth factor\u201d proteins, which, in turn, can be used to cultivate lab-grown meat \u2014 an innovation that could make the lab-grown meat industry rely even less on live animals in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The company behind the greenhouse, ORF Genetics, is growing the biogenetically engineered barley over 22,000 square feet using high-tech hydroponic cultivation methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Iceland are growing over 100,000 genetically modified barley plants inside a greenhouse for a very unusual purpose: creating lab-grown meat, the BBC reports. The altered barley gets harvested and purified to extract \u201cgrowth factor\u201d proteins, which, in turn, can be used to cultivate lab-grown meat \u2014 an innovation that could make the lab-grown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128921","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=128921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}