{"id":89066,"date":"2019-03-30T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/giant-viruses-have-weaponised-crispr-against-their-bacterial-hosts"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:05:23","slug":"giant-viruses-have-weaponised-crispr-against-their-bacterial-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/giant-viruses-have-weaponised-crispr-against-their-bacterial-hosts","title":{"rendered":"Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-viruses-have-weaponised-crispr-against-their-bacterial-hosts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of giant viruses that infect bacteria have been discovered. Some seem to deploy CRISPR \u2013 the system used for gene editing \u2013 to fight their hosts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2197422-giant-viruses-have-weaponised-crispr-against-their-bacterial-hosts\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2197422-giant-viruses-h...ial-hosts\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of giant viruses that infect bacteria have been discovered. Some seem to deploy CRISPR \u2013 the system used for gene editing \u2013 to fight their hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89066","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\/89066","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}