{"id":78795,"date":"2018-05-16T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/scientists-kick-off-synthetic-biology-project-to-make-virus-resistant-super-cells"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:03:18","slug":"scientists-kick-off-synthetic-biology-project-to-make-virus-resistant-super-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/scientists-kick-off-synthetic-biology-project-to-make-virus-resistant-super-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Kick Off Synthetic Biology Project to Make Virus-Resistant Super Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-kick-off-synthetic-biology-project-to-make-virus-resistant-super-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, roughly 200 eminent scientists assembled in Boston. Their agenda? Creating \u201csuperhero\u201d human cells impervious to all viral attacks and possibly other killers\u2014radiation, freezing, aging, or even cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The trick isn\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.wikia.com\/wiki\/Super-Soldier_Serum\">super-soldier serum<\/a>. Instead, the team is relying on tools from synthetic biology to read the cell\u2019s genetic blueprint and rewrite large chunks of the genome to unlock these superpowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is very strong reason to believe that we can produce cells that would be completely resistant to all known viruses,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringbiologycenter.org\/press\/may2018.pdf\">said<\/a> Dr. Jef Boeke, a geneticist at New York University and a co-leader of the project. \u201cIt should also be possible to engineer other traits, including resistance to prions and cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/15\/synthetic-biologists-kick-off-new-project-to-program-virus-resistant-super-cells\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=daa768fda1-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-daa768fda1-58220945#sm.00lokuoa10kue7811we1u22x7q9m4\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/15\/synthetic-biologists-k...1u22x7q9m4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, roughly 200 eminent scientists assembled in Boston. Their agenda? Creating \u201csuperhero\u201d human cells impervious to all viral attacks and possibly other killers\u2014radiation, freezing, aging, or even cancer. The trick isn\u2019t super-soldier serum. Instead, the team is relying on tools from synthetic biology to read the cell\u2019s genetic blueprint and rewrite large chunks 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":[1902,11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78795","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=78795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78845,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78795\/revisions\/78845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}