{"id":23437,"date":"2016-03-12T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/desktop-genetics-now-you-can-do-genetic-engineering-without-ever-entering-a-lab"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:41:59","slug":"desktop-genetics-now-you-can-do-genetic-engineering-without-ever-entering-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/desktop-genetics-now-you-can-do-genetic-engineering-without-ever-entering-a-lab","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Genetics: Now You Can Do Genetic Engineering Without Ever Entering a Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZImVkl8QTW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR may be revolutionary; however, it\u2019s not nearly as easy as it\u2019s made out to be. But thanks to this company, individuals can alter the source code of life without ever needing to enter a lab.<\/p>\n<p>A new genome editing technique is allowing us to alter DNA\u2014the source code of life\u2014with unprecedented precision. It <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/crispr-dna-editing-is-going-to-transform-our-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">is known as CRISPR<\/a>, and with it, we can target and change a gene from <em>any<\/em> cell of <em>any<\/em> species without interfering with any other genes. If that\u2019s not enough, we are able to edit these genes at just a fraction of the cost of previous methods.<\/p>\n<p>So not only is this technique remarkably precise, it\u2019s also remarkably cheap.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/desktop-genetics-heres-can-genetic-engineering-without-ever-entering-lab\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/desktop-genetics-heres-can-genetic-engin...ering-lab\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR may be revolutionary; however, it\u2019s not nearly as easy as it\u2019s made out to be. But thanks to this company, individuals can alter the source code of life without ever needing to enter a lab. A new genome editing technique is allowing us to alter DNA\u2014the source code of life\u2014with unprecedented precision. It is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62442,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437\/revisions\/62442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}