{"id":198876,"date":"2024-11-07T07:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/animal-cells-capable-of-photosynthesis-created-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-11-07T07:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:24:53","slug":"animal-cells-capable-of-photosynthesis-created-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/animal-cells-capable-of-photosynthesis-created-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Animal cells capable of photosynthesis created for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/animal-cells-capable-of-photosynthesis-created-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an incredible feat that redefines biological boundaries, scientists have successfully engineered animal cells capable of photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough, led by Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Tokyo<\/a>, could transform medical research and aid in advancing lab-grown meat production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/revealing-the-secrets-of-photosynthesis-through-pep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Photosynthesis<\/a>, traditionally exclusive to plants, algae, and certain bacteria, is a process that uses sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and sugars \u2013 essentially \u201cfeeding\u201d the organism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an incredible feat that redefines biological boundaries, scientists have successfully engineered animal cells capable of photosynthesis. This breakthrough, led by Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga at the University of Tokyo, could transform medical research and aid in advancing lab-grown meat production. Photosynthesis, traditionally exclusive to plants, algae, and certain bacteria, is a process that uses sunlight, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198876","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\/198876","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}