{"id":234870,"date":"2026-04-09T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-are-engineering-plants-to-glow-in-the-dark-they-could-soon-light-our-cities"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:06:08","slug":"scientists-are-engineering-plants-to-glow-in-the-dark-they-could-soon-light-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-are-engineering-plants-to-glow-in-the-dark-they-could-soon-light-our-cities","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Engineering Plants to Glow in the Dark. They Could Soon Light Our Cities"},"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\/hp-vqd8zJM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using gene-editing technology, scientists and start-ups are aiming to provide electricity-free illumination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using gene-editing technology, scientists and start-ups are aiming to provide electricity-free illumination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234870","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}