{"id":205204,"date":"2025-02-02T02:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T08:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-creating-synthetic-life"},"modified":"2025-02-02T02:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T08:09:20","slug":"scientists-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-creating-synthetic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-creating-synthetic-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Achieved a Major Milestone in Creating Synthetic Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-creating-synthetic-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, putting together the final chromosome in a synthetic yeast (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae\"><em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae<\/em><\/a>) genome.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, led by a team from Macquarie University in Australia, chose yeast as a way to demonstrate the potential for producing foodstuffs that could survive the rigors of a changing climate or widespread disease.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time a synthetic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eukaryote\">eukaryotic genome<\/a> has been constructed in full, following on from successes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-redesign-e-coli-s-genome-to-create-the-most-synthetic-life-form-yet\">simpler bacteria organisms<\/a>. It\u2019s a proof-of-concept for how more complex organisms, like food crops, could be synthesized by scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, putting together the final chromosome in a synthetic yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) genome. The researchers, led by a team from Macquarie University in Australia, chose yeast as a way to demonstrate the potential for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205204","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=205204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}