{"id":35263,"date":"2017-03-13T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/scientists-just-took-a-big-step-towards-creating-artificial-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:36","slug":"scientists-just-took-a-big-step-towards-creating-artificial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/scientists-just-took-a-big-step-towards-creating-artificial-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Took a Big Step Towards Creating Artificial Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-took-a-big-step-towards-creating-artificial-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have taken a major step forward in developing complex artificial life, by successfully synthesising six out of 16 yeast <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chromosome\">chromosomes<\/a> \u2013 the molecular structures that carry genes.<\/p>\n<p>This means they\u2019re more than one-third of the way to being able to build their own custom-made yeast <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genome\">genomes<\/a> from scratch, which would be a huge moment in the field of developing lab-made lifeforms.<\/p>\n<p>The research is being carried out by the hundreds of scientists who make up the <a href=\"http:\/\/syntheticyeast.org\/\">Synthetic Yeast Genome Project<\/a>, and they estimate that the artificial yeast genome could be completed within the next year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/yeast-genome-synthesis-brings-scientists-another-step-closer-to-creating-artificial-life\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/yeast-genome-synthesis-brings-sc...icial-life<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have taken a major step forward in developing complex artificial life, by successfully synthesising six out of 16 yeast chromosomes \u2013 the molecular structures that carry genes. This means they\u2019re more than one-third of the way to being able to build their own custom-made yeast genomes from scratch, which would be a huge moment [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35263","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=35263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58444,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35263\/revisions\/58444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}