{"id":135511,"date":"2022-02-12T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/moon-develops-targeted-reliable-long-lasting-kill-switch"},"modified":"2022-02-12T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T16:22:36","slug":"moon-develops-targeted-reliable-long-lasting-kill-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/moon-develops-targeted-reliable-long-lasting-kill-switch","title":{"rendered":"Moon develops targeted, reliable, long-lasting kill switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moon-develops-targeted-reliable-long-lasting-kill-switch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.wustl.edu\/faculty\/Tae-Seok-Moon.html\">Tae Seok Moon<\/a>, associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has taken a big step forward in his quest to design a modular, genetically engineered kill switch that integrates into any genetically engineered microbe, causing it to self-destruct under certain defined conditions.<\/p>\n<p>His research was published Feb. 3 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-28163-5\">Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tae Seok Moon, associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has taken a big step forward in his quest to design a modular, genetically engineered kill switch that integrates into any genetically engineered microbe, causing it to self-destruct under certain defined conditions. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,38,412,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135511","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}