{"id":245138,"date":"2026-10-09T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-engineer-microbe-to-help-humanity-settle-mars"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:15:41","slug":"scientists-engineer-microbe-to-help-humanity-settle-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-engineer-microbe-to-help-humanity-settle-mars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists engineer microbe to help humanity settle Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-engineer-microbe-to-help-humanity-settle-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Pioneer Labs in Emeryville, California, have developed a microbe they suggest may be a useful, safe first step toward terraforming Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Mars, nature will do the same jobs for us that she does on Earth \u2014 create fertile soil, shelter, oxygen and food,\u201d Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs, told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, researchers at Pioneer Labs in Emeryville, California, have developed a microbe they suggest may be a useful, safe first step toward terraforming Mars. \u201cOn Mars, nature will do the same jobs for us that she does on Earth \u2014 create fertile soil, shelter, oxygen and food,\u201d Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs, told Space.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38,1507,1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-engineering","category-environmental","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245138","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}