{"id":149705,"date":"2022-11-08T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/these-engineered-viruses-are-delivering-dna-to-e-coli-instead-of-killing-it-heres-why"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:04","slug":"these-engineered-viruses-are-delivering-dna-to-e-coli-instead-of-killing-it-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/these-engineered-viruses-are-delivering-dna-to-e-coli-instead-of-killing-it-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"These engineered viruses are delivering DNA to E.coli instead of killing it- here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-engineered-viruses-are-delivering-dna-to-e-coli-instead-of-killing-it-heres-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, altering bacteria from within could be the solution to antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n<p>In an ironic twist, researchers used viruses engineered with the CRISPR-Cas system to alter bacterial defense mechanisms and edit their genomes selectively in complex environments. Significantly, the novel approach may help address the pressing issue of antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Meletios Verras\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The CRISPR Conundrum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, altering bacteria from within could be the solution to antibiotic resistance. In an ironic twist, researchers used viruses engineered with the CRISPR-Cas system to alter bacterial defense mechanisms and edit their genomes selectively in complex environments. Significantly, the novel approach may help address the pressing issue of antibiotic resistance. Meletios Verras\/iStock. The CRISPR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149705","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}