{"id":29920,"date":"2016-09-07T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mit-news-hacking-microbes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:55","slug":"mit-news-hacking-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mit-news-hacking-microbes","title":{"rendered":"MIT News: Hacking microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-news-hacking-microbes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Micro-manufacturing is perfecting quality control.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Biology is the world\u2019s greatest manufacturing platform, according to MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The synthetic-biology startup is re-engineering yeast to act as tiny organic \u201cfactories\u201d that produce chemicals for the flavor, fragrance, and food industries, with aims of making products more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently than traditional methods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see biology as a transformative technology,\u201d says Ginkgo co-founder Reshma Shetty PhD \u201908, who co-invented the technology at MIT. \u201cIt is the most powerful and sophisticated manufacturing platform on the planet, able to self-assemble incredible structures at a scale that is far out of reach of the most cutting-edge human technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bio-based.eu\/mit-news-hacking-microbes\/\">http:\/\/news.bio-based.eu\/mit-news-hacking-microbes\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micro-manufacturing is perfecting quality control. Biology is the world\u2019s greatest manufacturing platform, according to MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks. The synthetic-biology startup is re-engineering yeast to act as tiny organic \u201cfactories\u201d that produce chemicals for the flavor, fragrance, and food industries, with aims of making products more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently than traditional methods. \u201cWe see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920","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=29920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66325,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920\/revisions\/66325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}