{"id":135398,"date":"2022-02-09T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-create-a-global-repository-for-cell-engineering"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:22:47","slug":"scientists-create-a-global-repository-for-cell-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-create-a-global-repository-for-cell-engineering","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create a global repository for cell engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-a-global-repository-for-cell-engineering2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cloud-based repository that creates a digital fingerprint of engineered microorganisms has been successfully trialed.<\/p>\n<p>An international team led by Newcastle University has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/cellrepo.ico2s.org\/\">CellRepo<\/a>, a species and strain database that uses cell barcodes to monitor and track engineered organisms. Reported in a new study in the journal <i><i>Nature Communications<\/i>,<\/i> the database keeps track and organizes the digital data produced during cell engineering. It also molecularly links that data to the associated living samples.<\/p>\n<p>Available globally, this resource supports <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/international+collaboration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">international collaboration<\/a> and has significant safety advantages, such as limiting the impact of deliberately or accidentally released genetically modified microorganisms by enabling faster tracing of organisms lab of origin and design details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloud-based repository that creates a digital fingerprint of engineered microorganisms has been successfully trialed. An international team led by Newcastle University has launched CellRepo, a species and strain database that uses cell barcodes to monitor and track engineered organisms. Reported in a new study in the journal Nature Communications, the database keeps track and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135398","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}