{"id":88128,"date":"2019-02-24T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/doubling-our-dna-building-blocks-could-lead-to-new-life-forms"},"modified":"2019-02-24T01:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T09:42:22","slug":"doubling-our-dna-building-blocks-could-lead-to-new-life-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/doubling-our-dna-building-blocks-could-lead-to-new-life-forms","title":{"rendered":"Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doubling-our-dna-building-blocks-could-lead-to-new-life-forms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Ellington sees a more immediate use for the technology in the up-and-coming field of DNA data storage. Large tech firms and startups alike are evaluating whether nucleotides can beat out silicon when it comes to long-term, archival information storage. DNA is notoriously data-dense, and the arrival of hachimoji just doubled its information-carrying capacity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But first, chemists hope to improve DNA data storage and churn out new medical compounds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/doubling-our-dna-building-blocks-could-lead-to-new-life-forms\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/doubling-our-dna-building-blocks...ife-forms\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s why Ellington sees a more immediate use for the technology in the up-and-coming field of DNA data storage. Large tech firms and startups alike are evaluating whether nucleotides can beat out silicon when it comes to long-term, archival information storage. DNA is notoriously data-dense, and the arrival of hachimoji just doubled its information-carrying capacity. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88128","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}