{"id":31914,"date":"2016-11-14T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/weve-figured-out-how-to-program-living-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:03:09","slug":"weve-figured-out-how-to-program-living-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/weve-figured-out-how-to-program-living-cells","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Figured Out How to Program Living Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weve-figured-out-how-to-program-living-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT have developed an easy-to-use \u201cbiological programming language\u201d that allows genetic engineers (or just about anyone) to design biological circuits and \u201chack\u201d the genomes of living cells.<\/p>\n<p>The evolution of human technology has proceeded in lockstep with the biological evolution of our species. For millions of years we were content with our primitive Oldowan choppers and Acheulean bifaces; in the Neolithic, we started playing with more sophisticated tools, and the Bronze and Iron ages followed in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/hacking-biology-scientists-made-programming-language-living-cells\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/hacking-biology-scientists-made-programm...ing-cells\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Researchers at MIT have developed an easy-to-use \u201cbiological programming language\u201d that allows genetic engineers (or just about anyone) to design biological circuits and \u201chack\u201d the genomes of living cells. The evolution of human technology has proceeded in lockstep with the biological evolution of our species. For millions of years we were content with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65767,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions\/65767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}