{"id":179316,"date":"2023-12-27T19:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/why-resurrection-biology-is-gaining-traction-around-the-world"},"modified":"2023-12-27T19:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:27:32","slug":"why-resurrection-biology-is-gaining-traction-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/why-resurrection-biology-is-gaining-traction-around-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018resurrection biology\u2019 is gaining traction around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-resurrection-biology-is-gaining-traction-around-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resurrection biology \u2014 attempting to bring strings of molecules and more complex organisms back to life \u2014 is gaining traction in labs around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The work is a far cry from the genetically engineered dinosaurs that escape in the blockbuster movie \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d although for some scientists the ultimate goal is de-extinction and resurrecting animals and plants that have been lost.<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers are looking to the past for new sources of drugs or to sound an alarm about the possibility of long-dormant pathogens. The field of study is also about recreating elements of human history in an attempt to better understand how our ancestors might have lived and died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resurrection biology \u2014 attempting to bring strings of molecules and more complex organisms back to life \u2014 is gaining traction in labs around the world. The work is a far cry from the genetically engineered dinosaurs that escape in the blockbuster movie \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d although for some scientists the ultimate goal is de-extinction and resurrecting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179316","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}