{"id":79933,"date":"2018-06-22T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/genetic-tool-could-let-scientists-create-new-dna-overnight-that-may-help-humans-live-forever"},"modified":"2018-06-22T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:03:21","slug":"genetic-tool-could-let-scientists-create-new-dna-overnight-that-may-help-humans-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/genetic-tool-could-let-scientists-create-new-dna-overnight-that-may-help-humans-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"Genetic tool could let scientists create new DNA \u2018overnight\u2019 that may help humans live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/06\/22\/8251348056266290641\/1024x576_MP4_8251348056266290641.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A revolutionary new DNA tool could help take humanity a step closer to eternal life. The device (pictured) pioneers a new technique that makes it cheaper and easier to synthesise genes \u2018overnight\u2019, say scientists \u2014 a process that normally takes several days.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley said it could lead to \u2018DNA printers\u2019 in research labs that work like the 3D printers in many modern workshops.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you\u2019re a mechanical engineer, it\u2019s really nice to have a 3D printer in your shop that can print out a part overnight so you can test it the next morning,\u2019 said UC Berkeley graduate student Dan Arlow.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5873889\/Genetic-tool-let-scientists-create-new-DNA-overnight-help-humans-live-forever.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5873889\/Genet...rever.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A revolutionary new DNA tool could help take humanity a step closer to eternal life. The device (pictured) pioneers a new technique that makes it cheaper and easier to synthesise genes \u2018overnight\u2019, say scientists \u2014 a process that normally takes several days. Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley said it could lead to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79933","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}