{"id":73991,"date":"2017-11-29T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-semi-synthetic-organism-can-make-molecules-weve-never-seen-before"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:23","slug":"new-semi-synthetic-organism-can-make-molecules-weve-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-semi-synthetic-organism-can-make-molecules-weve-never-seen-before","title":{"rendered":"New Semi-Synthetic Organism Can Make Molecules We\u2019ve Never Seen Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-semi-synthetic-organism-can-make-molecules-weve-never-seen-before.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have expanded the building blocks of DNA to create a stable semi-synthetic organism that can produce biological compounds entirely new to nature.<\/p>\n<p>The DNA that makes up essentially all living things on Earth consists of arrangements of four basic nucleotides, but the new life-form developed by researchers in the US makes use of six \u2013 and that\u2019s where things get interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-synthetic organism (SSO) engineered by a team at the Scripps Research Institute in California is made from the same four regular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleobase\">nucleobases<\/a> as you and I \u2013 adenine (A), cytosine \u00a9, guanine (G), and thymine (T) \u2013 but it\u2019s also got two unnatural nucleotides to call upon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-semi-synthetic-organism-can-make-molecules-we-ve-never-seen-before-dna-unnatural\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-semi-synthetic-organism-can-...-unnatural<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have expanded the building blocks of DNA to create a stable semi-synthetic organism that can produce biological compounds entirely new to nature. The DNA that makes up essentially all living things on Earth consists of arrangements of four basic nucleotides, but the new life-form developed by researchers in the US makes use of six [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73991","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=73991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74065,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73991\/revisions\/74065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}