{"id":30425,"date":"2016-09-23T21:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T04:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mit-led-team-creates-freeze-dried-cellular-components-to-produce-biopharmaceuticals-on-demand"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:54","slug":"mit-led-team-creates-freeze-dried-cellular-components-to-produce-biopharmaceuticals-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mit-led-team-creates-freeze-dried-cellular-components-to-produce-biopharmaceuticals-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"MIT-Led Team Creates Freeze-Dried Cellular Components to Produce Biopharmaceuticals on Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-led-team-creates-freeze-dried-cellular-components-to-produce-biopharmaceuticals-on-demand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\">MIT<\/a> and other institutions have developed miniature freeze-dried pellets that possess all of the molecular machinery required to convert DNA into proteins, which could form the basis for on-demand production of vaccines and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The pellets, which hold several enzymes and other molecules extracted from cells, can be stored for prolonged period of time at room temperature. When water and freeze-dried DNA are added, the pellets start to produce proteins encoded by the DNA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a modular system that can be programmed to make what you need, on the spot. You could have hundreds of different DNA pellets you can add in the field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azom.com\/news.aspx?newsID=46479\">http:\/\/www.azom.com\/news.aspx?newsID=46479<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at MIT and other institutions have developed miniature freeze-dried pellets that possess all of the molecular machinery required to convert DNA into proteins, which could form the basis for on-demand production of vaccines and drugs. The pellets, which hold several enzymes and other molecules extracted from cells, can be stored for [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425","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=30425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66171,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425\/revisions\/66171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}