{"id":166971,"date":"2023-07-06T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/artificial-cells-demonstrate-that-life-finds-a-way"},"modified":"2023-07-06T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:23:36","slug":"artificial-cells-demonstrate-that-life-finds-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/artificial-cells-demonstrate-that-life-finds-a-way","title":{"rendered":"Artificial cells demonstrate that \u2018life finds a way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-cells-demonstrate-that-life-finds-a-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evolutionary biologist Jay T. Lennon\u2019s research team has been studying a synthetically constructed minimal cell that has been stripped of all but its essential genes. The team found that the streamlined cell can evolve just as fast as a normal cell\u2014demonstrating the capacity for organisms to adapt, even with an unnatural genome that would seemingly provide little flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the study can be found in a paper featured in <i>Nature<\/i>. Roy Z. Moger-Reischer, a Ph.D. student in the Lennon lab at the time of the study, is first author on the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, if there\u2019s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but\u2026 ife finds a way,\u201d said Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum\u2019s character in Jurassic Park, the 1993 science fiction film about a park with living dinosaurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolutionary biologist Jay T. Lennon\u2019s research team has been studying a synthetically constructed minimal cell that has been stripped of all but its essential genes. The team found that the streamlined cell can evolve just as fast as a normal cell\u2014demonstrating the capacity for organisms to adapt, even with an unnatural genome that would seemingly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,32,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166971","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=166971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}