{"id":88444,"date":"2019-03-06T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/most-microbial-species-are-dark-matter"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:42:39","slug":"most-microbial-species-are-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/most-microbial-species-are-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Most Microbial Species Are \u201cDark Matter\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-microbial-species-are-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as most of the matter in the universe is thought to be \u201cdark matter,\u201d much of Earth is populated by a kind of microbial analogue: microorganisms that are known to exist but have never been grown in a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, published last September in <em>mSystems<\/em>, suggests such microbes could account for up to 81 percent of all bacterial genera that live outside the human body. These little-known organisms could hold the secrets to new tools for treating disease and could help us understand life in extreme environments, such as those on other planets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/most-microbial-species-are-dark-matter\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/most-microbial-sp...rk-matter\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as most of the matter in the universe is thought to be \u201cdark matter,\u201d much of Earth is populated by a kind of microbial analogue: microorganisms that are known to exist but have never been grown in a laboratory. A new study, published last September in mSystems, suggests such microbes could account for up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88444","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=88444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}