{"id":157877,"date":"2023-02-13T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-genetically-edit-bread-to-cut-cancer-causing-chemical"},"modified":"2023-02-13T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:23:04","slug":"scientists-genetically-edit-bread-to-cut-cancer-causing-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-genetically-edit-bread-to-cut-cancer-causing-chemical","title":{"rendered":"Scientists \u2018genetically edit\u2019 bread to cut cancer-causing chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-genetically-edit-bread-to-cut-cancer-causing-chemical.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amount of toxin present in wheat, which is carcinogenic when heated, can be reduced and grown, new field study confirms Toast could soon be healthier after scientists grew a field of wheat genetically-edited to remove a cancer-causing chemical. Bread, when baked, produces a dangerous toxin called acrylamide, which is believed to be carcinogenic and when toasted is even more lethal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amount of toxin present in wheat, which is carcinogenic when heated, can be reduced and grown, new field study confirms Toast could soon be healthier after scientists grew a field of wheat genetically-edited to remove a cancer-causing chemical. Bread, when baked, produces a dangerous toxin called acrylamide, which is believed to be carcinogenic and when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157877","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=157877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}