{"id":28670,"date":"2016-08-04T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-scientists-plan-to-grow-cities-out-of-living-organisms"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:01:05","slug":"how-scientists-plan-to-grow-cities-out-of-living-organisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-scientists-plan-to-grow-cities-out-of-living-organisms","title":{"rendered":"How Scientists Plan to Grow Cities Out of Living Organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMrxnXFTSH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a future where there is no need to cut down a tree and and reshape that raw material into a chair or table. Instead, we could grow our furniture by custom-engineering moss or mushrooms. Perhaps glowing bacteria will light our cities, and we\u2019ll be able to bring back extinct species, or wipe out Lyme disease\u2014or maybe even terraform Mars. Synthetic biology could help us accomplish all that, and more.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message of the latest video in a new mini-documentary Web series called <em>Explorations<\/em>, focusing on potentially transformative areas of scientific research: genomics, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, transportation, space exploration, and synthetic biology. It\u2019s a passion project of entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, founder of OS Fund and the payments processing company Braintree.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-scientists-plan-to-grow-cities-out-of-living-organi-1784779800\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-scientists-plan-to-grow-cities-out-of...1784779800<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a future where there is no need to cut down a tree and and reshape that raw material into a chair or table. Instead, we could grow our furniture by custom-engineering moss or mushrooms. Perhaps glowing bacteria will light our cities, and we\u2019ll be able to bring back extinct species, or wipe out Lyme [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,32,1507,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-environmental","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670","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=28670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60908,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions\/60908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}