{"id":24177,"date":"2016-04-01T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T07:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/a-programming-language-for-living-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:08","slug":"a-programming-language-for-living-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/a-programming-language-for-living-cells","title":{"rendered":"A programming language for living cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-programming-language-for-living-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells.<\/p>\n<p>Using this language, anyone can write a program for the function they want, such as detecting and responding to certain <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental conditions<\/a>. They can then generate a DNA sequence that will achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is literally a <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/programming+language\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">programming language<\/a> for bacteria,\u201d says Christopher Voigt, an MIT professor of biological engineering. \u201cYou use a text-based language, just like you\u2019re programming a computer. Then you take that text and you compile it and it turns it into a DNA sequence that you put into the cell, and the circuit runs inside the cell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-03-language-cells.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;03-language-cells.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells. Using this language, anyone can write a program for the function they want, such as detecting and responding to certain environmental conditions. They can then generate a DNA sequence that will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67852,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions\/67852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}