{"id":32186,"date":"2016-11-25T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/for-the-first-time-living-cells-have-formed-carbon-silicon-bonds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:01:46","slug":"for-the-first-time-living-cells-have-formed-carbon-silicon-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/for-the-first-time-living-cells-have-formed-carbon-silicon-bonds","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-living-cells-have-formed-carbon-silicon-bonds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have managed to coax living cells into making carbon-silicon bonds, demonstrating for the first time that nature can incorporate silicon \u2014 one of the most abundant elements on Earth \u2014 into the building blocks of life.<\/p>\n<p>While chemists have achieved carbon-silicon bonds before \u2014 they\u2019re found in everything from paints and semiconductors to computer and TV screens \u2014 they\u2019ve so far never been found in nature, and these new cells could help us understand more about the possibility of silicon-based life elsewhere in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>After oxygen, silicon is <a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.frostburg.edu\/chem\/senese\/101\/periodic\/faq\/what-element-is-most-abundant.shtml\">the second most abundant element<\/a> in Earth\u2019s crust, and yet it has nothing to do with biological life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-living-cells-have-formed-carbon-silicon-bonds\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-living-cells-...icon-bonds<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have managed to coax living cells into making carbon-silicon bonds, demonstrating for the first time that nature can incorporate silicon \u2014 one of the most abundant elements on Earth \u2014 into the building blocks of life. While chemists have achieved carbon-silicon bonds before \u2014 they\u2019re found in everything from paints and semiconductors to computer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65715,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186\/revisions\/65715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}