{"id":198088,"date":"2024-10-21T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T03:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/bioengineering-cells-to-support-new-capabilities"},"modified":"2024-10-21T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T03:24:38","slug":"bioengineering-cells-to-support-new-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/bioengineering-cells-to-support-new-capabilities","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineering cells to support new capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioengineering-cells-to-support-new-capabilities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every cell is beholden to a phenomenon called cell fate, a sort of biological preset determined by genetic coding. Burgeoning cells take their developmental cues from a set of core genetic instructions that shape their structure and function and how they interact with other cells in the body.<\/p>\n<p>To you or me, it\u2019s biological law. But to a group of researchers at Stanford Medicine, it\u2019s more of a suggestion. Unconstrained by the rules of evolution, these scientists are instead governed by a question: What if?<\/p>\n<p>What if you could eat a vaccine? Or create a bacterium that could also detect and attack cancer? What if furniture could grow from a seed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every cell is beholden to a phenomenon called cell fate, a sort of biological preset determined by genetic coding. Burgeoning cells take their developmental cues from a set of core genetic instructions that shape their structure and function and how they interact with other cells in the body. To you or me, it\u2019s biological law. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198088","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=198088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}