{"id":30053,"date":"2016-09-10T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-synthetic-biology-era-is-here-how-we-can-make-the-most-of-it-2"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:13","slug":"the-synthetic-biology-era-is-here-how-we-can-make-the-most-of-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-synthetic-biology-era-is-here-how-we-can-make-the-most-of-it-2","title":{"rendered":"The Synthetic Biology Era Is Here \u2013 How We Can Make the Most of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are entering an era of directed design in which we will expand the limited notion that biology is only the \u2018study of life and living things\u2019 and see biology as the ultimate <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/synbio\/2014\/07\/02\/synthetic-aesthetics-drew-endy-on-design-for-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">distributed, manufacturing platform<\/a> (as Stanford bioengineer, Drew Endy, often says). This new mode of manufacturing will offer us unrivaled personalization and functionality. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>New foods. New fuels. New materials. New drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re already taking our first steps in this direction. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jouleunlimited.com\/\">Joule Unlimited<\/a> has engineered bacteria to convert CO2 into fuels in a single-step, continuous process. Others are engineering yeast to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artemisinin\" target=\"_blank\">artemisinin<\/a> \u2014 a potent anti-malarial compound used by millions of people globally. Still other <a href=\"http:\/\/biosciences.dupont.com\/media\/news-archive\/news\/2009\/the-worlds-first-goodyear-concept-tires-made-with-bioisoprenetm-technology-arrive-in-copenhagen-in-time-for-united-nations-climate-change-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">microbes<\/a> are being reprogrammed to produce industrial ingredients, like those used in synthetic rubber.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/transgenicnews.com\/2016\/09\/10\/syn\/\">https:\/\/transgenicnews.com\/2016\/09\/10\/syn\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are entering an era of directed design in which we will expand the limited notion that biology is only the \u2018study of life and living things\u2019 and see biology as the ultimate distributed, manufacturing platform (as Stanford bioengineer, Drew Endy, often says). This new mode of manufacturing will offer us unrivaled personalization and functionality. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053","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=30053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60434,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions\/60434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}