{"id":87743,"date":"2019-02-14T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bioluminescent-trees-that-glow-like-fireflies-created-at-mit"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:05:23","slug":"bioluminescent-trees-that-glow-like-fireflies-created-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bioluminescent-trees-that-glow-like-fireflies-created-at-mit","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bioluminescent\u2019 trees that glow like fireflies created at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hp-vqd8zJM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To create their glowing plants, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) turned to an enzyme called luciferase.<\/p>\n<p>Luciferase acts on a molecule called luciferin, causing it to emit light.<\/p>\n<p>Another molecule called Co-enzyme A helps the process along by removing a reaction byproduct that can inhibit luciferase activity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5178531\/MIT-creates-bioluminescent-trees-glow-like-fireflies.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5178531\/MIT-...flies.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To create their glowing plants, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) turned to an enzyme called luciferase. Luciferase acts on a molecule called luciferin, causing it to emit light. Another molecule called Co-enzyme A helps the process along by removing a reaction byproduct that can inhibit luciferase activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87743","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}