{"id":240196,"date":"2026-07-02T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-synthetic-cell-built-entirely-from-scratch-has-reached-a-milestone-that-scientists-once-thought-impossible"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:04:55","slug":"a-synthetic-cell-built-entirely-from-scratch-has-reached-a-milestone-that-scientists-once-thought-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-synthetic-cell-built-entirely-from-scratch-has-reached-a-milestone-that-scientists-once-thought-impossible","title":{"rendered":"A Synthetic Cell Built Entirely From Scratch Has Reached a Milestone That Scientists Once Thought Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-synthetic-cell-built-entirely-from-scratch-has-reached-a-milestone-that-scientists-once-thought-impossible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens when scientists start with nothing but chemical components and attempt to recreate a living cell, one of biology\u2019s greatest feats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when scientists start with nothing but chemical components and attempt to recreate a living cell, one of biology\u2019s greatest feats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240196","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}