{"id":23929,"date":"2016-03-24T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T03:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/scientists-build-a-live-no-frills-cell-that-could-have-a-big-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:48","slug":"scientists-build-a-live-no-frills-cell-that-could-have-a-big-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/scientists-build-a-live-no-frills-cell-that-could-have-a-big-future","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build A Live, No-Frills Cell That Could Have A Big Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-a-live-no-frills-cell-that-could-have-a-big-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists announced Thursday that they have built a single-celled organism that has just 473 genes \u2014 likely close to the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain its life. The development, they say, could eventually lead to new manufacturing methods.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1995, a few top geneticists set out on a quest: to make an organism that had only the genes that were absolutely essential for its survival. A zero-frills life.<\/p>\n<p>It was a heady time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/peconicpublicbroadcasting.org\/post\/scientists-build-live-no-frills-cell-could-have-big-future#stream\/0\">http:\/\/peconicpublicbroadcasting.org\/post\/scientists-build-l...e#stream\/0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists announced Thursday that they have built a single-celled organism that has just 473 genes \u2014 likely close to the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain its life. The development, they say, could eventually lead to new manufacturing methods. Around 1995, a few top geneticists set out on a quest: to make an organism [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67920,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions\/67920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}