{"id":31851,"date":"2016-11-11T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/pill-packing-100-billion-designer-bacteria-could-be-tested-next-year"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:03:49","slug":"pill-packing-100-billion-designer-bacteria-could-be-tested-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/pill-packing-100-billion-designer-bacteria-could-be-tested-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Pill Packing 100 Billion Designer Bacteria Could Be Tested Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pill-packing-100-billion-designer-bacteria-could-be-tested-next-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria are among the oldest life forms on Earth and exist nearly everywhere; in the soil, water, deep in the earth\u2019s crust and in our own bodies. Actually, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/scientists-bust-myth-that-our-bodies-have-more-bacteria-than-human-cells-1.19136\">at least as many bacterial cells in the human body<\/a> as human cells.<\/p>\n<p>Bacteria tend to get a bad rap, but now, armed with new research on the bacterial world (or microbiome) in our bodies, we are starting to understand how important a role microorganisms play in our health (good as well as bad).<\/p>\n<p>And beyond merely understanding the relationship between our bodies and the microorganisms inhabiting it, we\u2019re on the cusp of significantly altering that relationship.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/11\/pill-packing-100-billion-designer-bacteria-could-be-tested-next-year\/\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/11\/pill-packing-100-billio...next-year\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria are among the oldest life forms on Earth and exist nearly everywhere; in the soil, water, deep in the earth\u2019s crust and in our own bodies. Actually, there are at least as many bacterial cells in the human body as human cells. Bacteria tend to get a bad rap, but now, armed with new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65786,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions\/65786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}