{"id":172547,"date":"2023-09-22T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/israeli-researchers-develop-method-for-safely-detecting-landmines-using-bacteria"},"modified":"2023-09-22T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:22:20","slug":"israeli-researchers-develop-method-for-safely-detecting-landmines-using-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/israeli-researchers-develop-method-for-safely-detecting-landmines-using-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Researchers Develop Method for Safely Detecting Landmines \u2014 Using Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-researchers-develop-method-for-safely-detecting-landmines-using-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By John Jeffay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISRAEL21c<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Israel have announced a breakthrough in safely detecting landmines \u2013 using bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve developed tiny pellet-sized biosensors based on E. coli. The biosensors are dispersed over the target area, where they sniff out the chemical signature of buried explosives and become luminescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Jeffay, ISRAEL21c Researchers in Israel have announced a breakthrough in safely detecting landmines \u2013 using bacteria. They\u2019ve developed tiny pellet-sized biosensors based on E. coli. The biosensors are dispersed over the target area, where they sniff out the chemical signature of buried explosives and become luminescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172547","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=172547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}