{"id":235169,"date":"2026-04-14T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/slice-and-dice"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:07:59","slug":"slice-and-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/slice-and-dice","title":{"rendered":"Slice and dice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slice-and-dice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers characterize SNIPE, which stands for surface-associated nuclease inhibiting phage entry, which directly protects bacteria from phage, the viruses that infect them, by chopping up invading viral DNA as it enters the bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers characterize SNIPE, which stands for surface-associated nuclease inhibiting phage entry, which directly protects bacteria from phage, the viruses that infect them, by chopping up invading viral DNA as it enters the bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235169","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}