{"id":157109,"date":"2023-02-05T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/auburn-university-researchers-combining-alligator-catfish-dna-who-would-have-thought-to-do-this"},"modified":"2023-02-05T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:24:53","slug":"auburn-university-researchers-combining-alligator-catfish-dna-who-would-have-thought-to-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/auburn-university-researchers-combining-alligator-catfish-dna-who-would-have-thought-to-do-this","title":{"rendered":"Auburn University researchers combining alligator, catfish DNA: \u2018Who would have thought to do this?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/auburn-university-researchers-combining-alligator-catfish-dna-who-would-have-thought-to-do-this.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like the start of a Southern gothic horror thriller. Auburn University scientists have been putting alligator DNA in catfish. It\u2019s delicious, but with less chance for infection. Don\u2019t worry, it won\u2019t bite back. MIT Technology Review recently highlighted the work of Rex Dunham, Baofeng Su and their colleagues at Auburn University, who have used genetic modification to reduce problems of disease in catfish farming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like the start of a Southern gothic horror thriller. Auburn University scientists have been putting alligator DNA in catfish. It\u2019s delicious, but with less chance for infection. Don\u2019t worry, it won\u2019t bite back. MIT Technology Review recently highlighted the work of Rex Dunham, Baofeng Su and their colleagues at Auburn University, who have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157109","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}