{"id":24431,"date":"2016-04-08T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/imperial-opens-uks-first-synthetic-biology-foundry"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:24:33","slug":"imperial-opens-uks-first-synthetic-biology-foundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/imperial-opens-uks-first-synthetic-biology-foundry","title":{"rendered":"Imperial opens UK\u2019s first synthetic-biology foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2016\/apr\/images\/640_the-foundry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#SyntheticBiology: Robotic lab to custom-make synthetic bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial College opens UK\u2019s first robotic lab that automates the creation &amp; rebooting of bacteria custom-made to produce pharmaceuticals and other materials. The robots will automate the synthesise of complete DNA strands, which consists millions of base pairs, and transplant entire genomes into bacteria chassis.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSERCambridge\">@CSERCambridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2016\/apr\/UK-first-synthetic-biology-foundry.cfm\">http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2016\/apr\/UK-first-synthetic-biology-foundry.cfm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#SyntheticBiology: Robotic lab to custom-make synthetic bacteria. Imperial College opens UK\u2019s first robotic lab that automates the creation &amp; rebooting of bacteria custom-made to produce pharmaceuticals and other materials. The robots will automate the synthesise of complete DNA strands, which consists millions of base pairs, and transplant entire genomes into bacteria chassis. H\/T: @CSERCambridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42658,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions\/42658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}