{"id":149267,"date":"2022-11-01T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-engineered-super-bacteria-that-are-alien-to-all-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:25:52","slug":"scientists-engineered-super-bacteria-that-are-alien-to-all-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-engineered-super-bacteria-that-are-alien-to-all-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Engineered Super Bacteria That Are Alien to All Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-engineered-super-bacteria-that-are-alien-to-all-life-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other, because organisms share the same universal code, they\u2019re vulnerable to outside attacks from viruses and other pathogens\u2014and can transfer their new capabilities to natural organisms, even if it kills them.<\/p>\n<p>Why not build a genetic firewall?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.add8943?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D27804659156693529943361870519116104491%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1666571725\">recent study<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i> did just that. The team partially reworked the existing genetic code into a \u201ccipher\u201d that normal organisms can\u2019t comprehend. Similarly, the engineered bacteria lost its ability to read the natural genetic code. The tweaks formed a powerful language barrier between the engineered bacteria and natural organisms, isolating each from sharing genetic information with the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other, because organisms share the same universal code, they\u2019re vulnerable to outside attacks from viruses and other pathogens\u2014and can transfer their new capabilities to natural organisms, even if it kills them. Why not build a genetic firewall? A recent study in Science did just that. The team partially reworked the existing genetic code [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149267","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=149267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}