{"id":70545,"date":"2017-06-29T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/biological-teleportation-edges-closer-with-craig-venters-digital-to-biological-converter"},"modified":"2017-07-05T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:00:46","slug":"biological-teleportation-edges-closer-with-craig-venters-digital-to-biological-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/biological-teleportation-edges-closer-with-craig-venters-digital-to-biological-converter","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biological Teleportation\u2019 Edges Closer With Craig Venter\u2019s Digital-to-Biological Converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biological-teleportation-edges-closer-with-craig-venters-digital-to-biological-converter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year is 2030. In a high-security containment lab, scientists gathered around a towering machine, eagerly awaiting the first look at a newly discovered bacterium on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>With a series of beeps, the machine\u2014a digital-to-biological converter, or DBC\u2014signaled that it had successfully received the bacterium\u2019s digitized genomic file. Using a chemical cocktail comprised of the building blocks of DNA, it whirled into action, automatically reconstructing the alien organism\u2019s genes letter-by-letter.<\/p>\n<p>Within a day, scientists had an exact replica of the Martian bacterium.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/06\/28\/biological-teleportation-gets-closer-thanks-to-craig-venters-digital-to-biological-converter\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=925fe6d470-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-925fe6d470-58220945\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/06\/28\/biological-teleportati...5;58220945<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is 2030. In a high-security containment lab, scientists gathered around a towering machine, eagerly awaiting the first look at a newly discovered bacterium on Mars. With a series of beeps, the machine\u2014a digital-to-biological converter, or DBC\u2014signaled that it had successfully received the bacterium\u2019s digitized genomic file. Using a chemical cocktail comprised of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,3,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-biological","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70545","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=70545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70689,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70545\/revisions\/70689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}