{"id":80534,"date":"2018-07-11T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/new-dna-synthesis-method-could-soon-build-a-genome-in-a-day"},"modified":"2018-07-11T01:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:42:22","slug":"new-dna-synthesis-method-could-soon-build-a-genome-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/new-dna-synthesis-method-could-soon-build-a-genome-in-a-day","title":{"rendered":"New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-dna-synthesis-method-could-soon-build-a-genome-in-a-day.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code\u2014in the form of a chain of A, T, C, G letters\u2014into an organism, and bam! Suddenly you have bacteria that can make anti-malaria drugs or cells that can solve complicated logic problems like a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Except it\u2019s not that simple. The basis of synthetic biology is DNA\u2014often a lot of it, in the form of many genes. Making an average gene from scratch costs several hundreds of dollars and <em>weeks<\/em> of time. Imagine a programmer taking a month to type a new line of code, and you\u2019ll likely understand a synthetic biologist\u2019s frustration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/07\/10\/new-dna-synthesis-method-could-soon-build-a-genome-in-a-day\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a4d6082a3a-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-a4d6082a3a-58220945#sm.00001j1bldq93scslxpqgl31y7doz\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/07\/10\/new-dna-synthesis-meth...qgl31y7doz<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA. The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code\u2014in the form of a chain of A, T, C, G letters\u2014into an organism, and bam! Suddenly you have bacteria that can make anti-malaria drugs or cells that can solve complicated logic problems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80534","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=80534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}