{"id":89556,"date":"2019-04-16T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/inside-arzedas-synthetic-biology-lab-where-industrial-ingredients-are-brewed-like-beer"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:42:23","slug":"inside-arzedas-synthetic-biology-lab-where-industrial-ingredients-are-brewed-like-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/inside-arzedas-synthetic-biology-lab-where-industrial-ingredients-are-brewed-like-beer","title":{"rendered":"Inside Arzeda\u2019s synthetic biology lab, where industrial ingredients are brewed like beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-arzedas-synthetic-biology-lab-where-industrial-ingredients-are-brewed-like-beer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexandre-zanghellini\/\">Alexandre Zanghellini<\/a> can\u2019t help but think about what makes up the world around him. Sitting in a conference room, Zanghellini considered the paint on the walls, the table, the window shades, the plastic chairs. It\u2019s all oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire world is made from oil. We just don\u2019t realize it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zanghellini\u2019s job, as the CEO of Seattle-based synthetic biology company <a href=\"https:\/\/arzeda.com\">Arzeda<\/a>, is to reconsider how we make the basic molecules that go into anything and everything in the human world. And he has a bias for processes that use living organisms. \u201cThe tools of biology, proteins, are better at doing chemistry than chemists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/inside-arzedas-synthetic-biology-lab-industrial-ingredients-brewed-like-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Zanghellini can\u2019t help but think about what makes up the world around him. Sitting in a conference room, Zanghellini considered the paint on the walls, the table, the window shades, the plastic chairs. It\u2019s all oil. \u201cThe entire world is made from oil. We just don\u2019t realize it,\u201d he said. Zanghellini\u2019s job, as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89556","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}