{"id":166924,"date":"2023-07-05T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-simplest-synthetic-cells-have-been-seen-evolving-faster-than-natural-ones"},"modified":"2023-07-05T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T02:23:30","slug":"the-simplest-synthetic-cells-have-been-seen-evolving-faster-than-natural-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-simplest-synthetic-cells-have-been-seen-evolving-faster-than-natural-ones","title":{"rendered":"The Simplest Synthetic Cells Have Been Seen Evolving Faster Than Natural Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-simplest-synthetic-cells-have-been-seen-evolving-faster-than-natural-ones2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Single-celled life forms need just the simplest of evolutionary footholds to get a leg up in their environment.<\/p>\n<p>Even an extremely minimal cell that contains just 493 genes can mutate and adapt to improve its fitness, researchers say \u2013 a critical step in the persistence and stability of life that has now been demonstrated in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The insights come from a new study by a team of researchers from the US and Brazil, which stripped a cell of all but its essential genes to see if it could still evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-celled life forms need just the simplest of evolutionary footholds to get a leg up in their environment. Even an extremely minimal cell that contains just 493 genes can mutate and adapt to improve its fitness, researchers say \u2013 a critical step in the persistence and stability of life that has now been demonstrated in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166924","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}