{"id":235936,"date":"2026-04-25T22:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/dna-can-be-built-in-a-way-weve-never-seen-before-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:20:56","slug":"dna-can-be-built-in-a-way-weve-never-seen-before-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/dna-can-be-built-in-a-way-weve-never-seen-before-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"DNA Can Be Built in a Way We\u2019ve Never Seen Before, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-can-be-built-in-a-way-weve-never-seen-before-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized.<\/p>\n<p>The business of constructing DNA (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\">deoxyribonucleic acid<\/a>, to give it its full name) usually requires a template that builder proteins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-single-enzyme-could-be-behind-some-peoples-depression-scientists-say\">called enzymes<\/a> can work from.<\/p>\n<p>But now, a team from Stanford University has found that a type of enzyme known as a polymerase can work without a blueprint. Its shape itself acts as a mold that new DNA can be synthesized from, with no external reference materials required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, to give it its full name) usually requires a template that builder proteins called enzymes can work from. But now, a team from Stanford University has found that a type of enzyme known as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235936","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=235936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}