{"id":177758,"date":"2023-12-08T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/seattle-biotech-hub-pursues-dna-typewriter-tech-with-75m-from-tech-billionaires"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:27:19","slug":"seattle-biotech-hub-pursues-dna-typewriter-tech-with-75m-from-tech-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/seattle-biotech-hub-pursues-dna-typewriter-tech-with-75m-from-tech-billionaires","title":{"rendered":"Seattle biotech hub pursues \u2018DNA typewriter\u2019 tech with $75M from tech billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seattle-biotech-hub-pursues-dna-typewriter-tech-with-75m-from-tech-billionaires2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Seattle biotech organization will be funded to the tune of $75 million to research \u201cDNA typewriters,\u201d self-monitoring cells that could upend our understanding of biology. The collaboration between the University of Washington, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Allen Institute is already underway.<\/p>\n<p>Called the <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlehub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology<\/a>, the joint initiative will combine the expertise of the two well-funded research outfits with that of UW Medicine, working in what UW\u2019s Jay Shendure, scientific lead for the project, called \u201ca new model of collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hub (not to be confused with the HUB, or Husky Union Building, on UW\u2019s campus) aims to strike a balance between a disinterested intellectual academic approach and a development-focused commercial approach. The $75 million will fund the organization for five years, with the option to renew then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Seattle biotech organization will be funded to the tune of $75 million to research \u201cDNA typewriters,\u201d self-monitoring cells that could upend our understanding of biology. The collaboration between the University of Washington, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Allen Institute is already underway. Called the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, the joint initiative will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177758","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=177758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}