{"id":28900,"date":"2016-08-13T20:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/uk-scientists-create-biological-lightbulbs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:25:24","slug":"uk-scientists-create-biological-lightbulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/uk-scientists-create-biological-lightbulbs","title":{"rendered":"UK scientists create biological lightbulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-scientists-create-biological-lightbulbs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They discovered genetically engineered bacteria\u2019s response to shocks.<\/p>\n<p>Genetically engineered E coli bacteria responds to electric shocks by producing a fluorescent protein that can be used as a light source. A team of undergraduate scientists at Newcastle University have created a lightbulb made up of living matter.<\/p>\n<p>Like any other electric bulb, the living light glows to illuminate a room, but is made by replacing some of the traditional electric components in a lightbulb circuit with biological parts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/others\/sci-tech\/UK-scientists-create-biological-lightbulbs\/articleshow\/53663301.cms\">http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/others\/sci-tech\/UK-scientists-cr...663301.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They discovered genetically engineered bacteria\u2019s response to shocks. Genetically engineered E coli bacteria responds to electric shocks by producing a fluorescent protein that can be used as a light source. A team of undergraduate scientists at Newcastle University have created a lightbulb made up of living matter. Like any other electric bulb, the living light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66594,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions\/66594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}