{"id":131206,"date":"2021-11-25T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-synthetic-dna-factory-is-building-new-forms-of-life"},"modified":"2021-11-25T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T18:22:38","slug":"this-synthetic-dna-factory-is-building-new-forms-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-synthetic-dna-factory-is-building-new-forms-of-life","title":{"rendered":"This Synthetic DNA Factory Is Building New Forms of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DxoLoOtyllU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life.<br \/> \u00bbSubscribe to Seeker! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a>.<br \/> \u00bbWatch more Focal Point | <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M3gmbK\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M3gmbK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston company specializing in \u201cengineering custom organisms,\u201d aims to reinvent manufacturing, agriculture, biodesign, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists, software engineers, and automated robots are working side by side to accelerate the speed of nature by taking synthetic DNA, remixing it, and programming microbes, turning custom organisms into mini-factories that could one day pump out new foods, fuels, and medicines.<\/p>\n<p>While there are possibly numerous positive and exciting outcomes from this research, like engineering gut bacteria to produce drugs inside the human body on demand or building self-fertilizing plants, the threat of potential DNA sequences harnessing a pathological function still exists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Ginkgo Bioworks is developing a malware software to effectively stomp out the global threat of biological weapons, ensuring that synthetic biology can\u2019t be used for evil.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about synthetic DNA and this biological assembly line on this episode of Focal Point.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-synthetic-dna-factory-is-building-new-forms-of-life\">Continue reading \u201cThis Synthetic DNA Factory Is Building New Forms of Life\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life. \u00bbSubscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker. \u00bbWatch more Focal Point | https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M3gmbK Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston company specializing in \u201cengineering custom organisms,\u201d aims to reinvent manufacturing, agriculture, biodesign, and more. Biologists, software engineers, and automated robots are working side [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,34,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131206","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}