{"id":25388,"date":"2016-05-05T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-vincis-genome"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:00:21","slug":"the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-vincis-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-vincis-genome","title":{"rendered":"The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-vincis-genome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The more da Vinci\u2019s the better, if you ask me!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An international team of scholars has just unveiled plans to science the shit out of Leonardo da Vinci, the man who gave us the Mona Lisa and envisioned futuristic technologies like helicopters and tanks 500 years ago. Goals of the fledgling \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1T2bbk1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo Project<\/a>\u201d include recovering the famous Renaissance figure\u2019s remains and reconstructing his genetic code.<\/p>\n<p>The Leonardo Project brings together geneticists, genealogists, archaeologists, and art historians from Italy, Spain, France, the United States and elsewhere. \u201cThis is a fabulous, interdisciplinary project,\u201d said Rhonda Roby, a geneticist at the Craig Venter Institute in California, who will be contributing its expertise in genomic reconstruction to the effort.<\/p>\n<p>By examining everything from paintings and notebooks to the DNA of living relatives, the team hopes to glean new insights into Leonardo\u2019s life, diet, physical appearance, and genetic predispositions. If they\u2019re very lucky, the researchers may be able to reconstruct most or all of Leonardo\u2019s genome.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-1774873148\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruc...1774873148<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more da Vinci\u2019s the better, if you ask me! An international team of scholars has just unveiled plans to science the shit out of Leonardo da Vinci, the man who gave us the Mona Lisa and envisioned futuristic technologies like helicopters and tanks 500 years ago. Goals of the fledgling \u201cLeonardo Project\u201d include recovering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50589,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388\/revisions\/50589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}