{"id":234816,"date":"2026-04-08T22:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-centimeter-long-bacterium-with-dna-contained-in-metabolically-active-membrane-bound-organelles"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:08:23","slug":"a-centimeter-long-bacterium-with-dna-contained-in-metabolically-active-membrane-bound-organelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-centimeter-long-bacterium-with-dna-contained-in-metabolically-active-membrane-bound-organelles","title":{"rendered":"A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound organelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-centimeter-long-bacterium-with-dna-contained-in-metabolically-active-membrane-bound-organelles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volland et al. discovered a type of bacteria which grows to around a centimeter in length! They explore its remarkable biological adaptations as well. A very interesting read!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<i>Candidatus<\/i> <i><i>Thiomargarita<\/i> magnifica<\/i> contains compartmentalized genomic material and disrupts conceptions of microbial morphology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volland et al. discovered a type of bacteria which grows to around a centimeter in length! They explore its remarkable biological adaptations as well. A very interesting read! Candidatus Thiomargarita magnifica contains compartmentalized genomic material and disrupts conceptions of microbial morphology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234816","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}