{"id":33600,"date":"2017-01-19T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/manufacturing-could-be-revolutionized"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:56:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:56:49","slug":"manufacturing-could-be-revolutionized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/manufacturing-could-be-revolutionized","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing could be revolutionized by synthetic biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/manufacturing-could-be-revolutionized-by-synthetic-biology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The emerging discipline of synthetic biology sits at the crux of the intersection between design, biology, computing and manufacturing\u2026[I]t appears more and more probable that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, where\u2026biology is adopted as the next big manufacturing technology.<\/p>\n<p>[The objective of Ginkgo Bioworks, an \u201corganism design\u201d company,] is to take synthetic biology techniques to an industrial level, machine-injecting DNA sequences into baker\u2019s yeast creating \u201cliving organism\u201d products like perfumes, sweeteners, cosmetics and other things that are typically extracted from plants.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main potential benefits from the technology. Replacing consumption of finite natural resources with lab-grown alternatives, and the potential to replicate actual genes to produce authentic fragrances replacing chemical synthetic scented products that currently dominate the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/2017\/01\/18\/manufacturing-could-be-revolutionized-by-synthetic-biology\/\">https:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/2017\/01\/18\/manufactur...c-biology\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emerging discipline of synthetic biology sits at the crux of the intersection between design, biology, computing and manufacturing\u2026[I]t appears more and more probable that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, where\u2026biology is adopted as the next big manufacturing technology. [The objective of Ginkgo Bioworks, an \u201corganism design\u201d company,] is to take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600","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=33600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59088,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions\/59088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}