{"id":20313,"date":"2015-12-29T23:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T07:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/a-big-year-for-biotech-bugs-as-drugs-precision-gene-editing-and-fake-food"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:03","slug":"a-big-year-for-biotech-bugs-as-drugs-precision-gene-editing-and-fake-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/a-big-year-for-biotech-bugs-as-drugs-precision-gene-editing-and-fake-food","title":{"rendered":"A Big Year for Biotech: Bugs as Drugs, Precision Gene Editing, and Fake Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-big-year-for-biotech-bugs-as-drugs-precision-gene-editing-and-fake-food.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speculations around whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/columnist\/krantz\/2015\/09\/15\/biotech-bubble-yellen-fed\/72095448\/\" target=\"_blank\">biotech stocks are in a bubble<\/a> remain undecided for the second year in a row. But one thing stands as indisputable\u2014the field made massive progress during 2015, and faster than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>For those following the industry in recent years, this shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, according to Adam Feuerstei at <em>The Street<\/em>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/12998085\/1\/biotech-stocks-2014-the-best-worst-and-fastest-growing.html\" target=\"_blank\">twenty-eight biotech and drugs stocks grew their market caps to $1 billion or more in 2014<\/a>, and major headlines like, \u201cHuman Genome Sequencing Now Under $1,000 Per Person,\u201d were strewn across the web last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/12\/29\/a-big-year-for-biotech-bugs-as-drugs-precision-gene-editing-and-fake-food\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculations around whether biotech stocks are in a bubble remain undecided for the second year in a row. But one thing stands as indisputable\u2014the field made massive progress during 2015, and faster than anticipated. For those following the industry in recent years, this shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise. In fact, according to Adam Feuerstei at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68945,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions\/68945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}