{"id":151913,"date":"2022-12-05T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-worlds-smallest-life-form-can-now-move-thanks-to-genetic-engineering"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:25:50","slug":"the-worlds-smallest-life-form-can-now-move-thanks-to-genetic-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-worlds-smallest-life-form-can-now-move-thanks-to-genetic-engineering","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s smallest life form can now move, thanks to genetic engineering"},"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\/VAY71FemC24?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough study, Japanese researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have engineered the smallest motile life form ever. They introduced seven bacterial proteins into a synthetic bacterium, allowing it to move independently.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of synthetic biology.<\/p>\n<p>The new study is based on the synthetic bacterium called syn-3. The tiny spherical bacteria contain minimal genetic information, allowing them to grow and divide without motility.<\/p>\n<p>The team experimented with syn-3 by introducing seven genes that code for proteins that are likely involved in the swimming motion of Spiroplasma bacteria.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>UA\/Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-worlds-smallest-life-form-can-now-move-thanks-to-genetic-engineering\">Continue reading \u201cThe world\u2019s smallest life form can now move, thanks to genetic engineering\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough study, Japanese researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have engineered the smallest motile life form ever. They introduced seven bacterial proteins into a synthetic bacterium, allowing it to move independently. The rise of synthetic biology. The new study is based on the synthetic bacterium called syn-3. The tiny spherical bacteria contain minimal genetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151913","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=151913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}