{"id":131431,"date":"2021-11-29T07:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-got-an-animal-to-breathe-without-oxygen"},"modified":"2021-11-29T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T15:23:01","slug":"scientists-got-an-animal-to-breathe-without-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-got-an-animal-to-breathe-without-oxygen","title":{"rendered":"Scientists got an animal to breathe without oxygen"},"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\/xHtRDHCKX2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has discovered a technique to keep tadpoles alive despite removing their capacity to breathe \u2014 by injecting algae into the little froglets\u2019 brains, turning their heads a bright, almost neon, green.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the frog?<\/strong> Plants, such as algae, produce oxygen through photosynthesis. Animals, on the other hand, cannot \u2014 we typically use lungs or gills to filter it from the environment.<\/p>\n<p>But what if there was a way animals could get the oxygen they need the same way that plants do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has discovered a technique to keep tadpoles alive despite removing their capacity to breathe \u2014 by injecting algae into the little froglets\u2019 brains, turning their heads a bright, almost neon, green. What the frog? Plants, such as algae, produce oxygen through photosynthesis. Animals, on the other hand, cannot \u2014 we typically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131431","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}