{"id":169114,"date":"2023-08-05T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/science-saturday-mayo-clinic-scientists-cracking-the-genetic-code-of-disease-causing-bacterial-species-to-improve-patient-outcomes"},"modified":"2023-08-05T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:23:55","slug":"science-saturday-mayo-clinic-scientists-cracking-the-genetic-code-of-disease-causing-bacterial-species-to-improve-patient-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/science-saturday-mayo-clinic-scientists-cracking-the-genetic-code-of-disease-causing-bacterial-species-to-improve-patient-outcomes","title":{"rendered":"Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic scientists cracking the genetic code of disease-causing bacterial species to improve patient outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-saturday-mayo-clinic-scientists-cracking-the-genetic-code-of-disease-causing-bacterial-species-to-improve-patient-outcomes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayo Clinic scientists are building an expansive library of DNA blueprints of disease-causing bacterial species. The unique collection of genomic sequences is serving as a reference database to help doctors provide rapid and precise diagnoses and pinpoint targeted treatments to potentially improve patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The vast data set is also being studied by researchers in an effort to develop new individualized treatments to combat bacteria-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Bacterial infections were linked to more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8672751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7 million global deaths<\/a> in 2019. Of those, nearly 1.3 million were the direct result of drug-resistant bacteria, according to the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayo Clinic scientists are building an expansive library of DNA blueprints of disease-causing bacterial species. The unique collection of genomic sequences is serving as a reference database to help doctors provide rapid and precise diagnoses and pinpoint targeted treatments to potentially improve patient outcomes. The vast data set is also being studied by researchers in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169114","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}