{"id":15859,"date":"2015-08-02T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/synthetic-biology-the-next-big-thing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:53","slug":"synthetic-biology-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/synthetic-biology-the-next-big-thing","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic biology \u2013 the next big thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-biology-the-next-big-thing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biology programming microorganisms to perform some new functions. Genes are made out of DNA; synthetic biology involves inserting synthetic genes that might not have existed before into yeast and reprogramming them to make a new chemistry or things not made naturally by biology. Each gene codes for an enzyme. One can program a new set of enzymes and convert them to intermediate products. If you go through five or even 15 steps, you can get a final product \u2013 a polymer, a new drug \u2013 creating a chemical factory inside a cell. This is much better than nanotechnology, because in synthetic biology, we get down to molecular size\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Prof. Joseph Jacobson, a leading physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is not only the inventor of e-ink but also a mover in creating artificial DNA to eventually cure diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Business-and-Innovation\/Health-and-Science\/Synthetic-biology-the-next-big-thing-409418\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic biology programming microorganisms to perform some new functions. Genes are made out of DNA; synthetic biology involves inserting synthetic genes that might not have existed before into yeast and reprogramming them to make a new chemistry or things not made naturally by biology. Each gene codes for an enzyme. One can program a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69774,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions\/69774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}