{"id":240189,"date":"2026-07-02T18:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/synthetic-biology-may-finally-be-ready-to-solve-lifes-biggest-mystery"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:57:42","slug":"synthetic-biology-may-finally-be-ready-to-solve-lifes-biggest-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/synthetic-biology-may-finally-be-ready-to-solve-lifes-biggest-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life\u2019s biggest mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-biology-may-finally-be-ready-to-solve-lifes-biggest-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes something alive? We simply don\u2019t know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating an artificial life form yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes something alive? We simply don\u2019t know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating an artificial life form yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189","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=240189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}