{"id":85141,"date":"2018-11-26T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/scientists-discover-a-new-route-to-antibiotics-using-gene-editing"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:22:21","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-route-to-antibiotics-using-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/scientists-discover-a-new-route-to-antibiotics-using-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a new route to antibiotics using gene editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-new-route-to-antibiotics-using-gene-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new chemical process\u2014also known as a biosynthetic pathway\u2014in bacteria which could lead to a new generation of antibiotics being produced and manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Manchester\u2019s School of Chemistry say their new pathway includes an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/enzyme\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">enzyme<\/a>, called a carboxylase, which adds CO2 to a precursor molecule producing a highly unusual antibiotic called malonomycin.<\/p>\n<p>The team says the biosynthetic process used to produce this antibiotic could now possibly lead to the discovery and development of other drugs, helping in the fight against drug-resistant bugs and illnesses in the future.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-scientists-route-antibiotics-gene.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-scientists-route-antibiotics-gene.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new chemical process\u2014also known as a biosynthetic pathway\u2014in bacteria which could lead to a new generation of antibiotics being produced and manufactured. Researchers at The University of Manchester\u2019s School of Chemistry say their new pathway includes an enzyme, called a carboxylase, which adds CO2 to a precursor molecule producing a highly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85141","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\/85141","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}